For UK soft FM firms: cleaning, security, grounds, waste, catering
Win more council, NHS and school contracts. We find them, check them and write the bid.
CleanTender shows every live public-sector soft FM tender in the UK, tells you which ones you can actually win, and writes your answers from your own evidence. No £1,000 bid writer. You review it, download it as Word and submit, the same afternoon.
7 days of full Pro. Card required. Or check one tender free, no account.
Updated daily from Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland.
Real tenders on CleanTender, closing soonest
- Cyngor Gwynedd Framework Agreement for Recycling and / or Dispoasl of PlasterboardCyngor GwyneddCloses in 2 days
- Cyngor Gwynedd Framework Agreement for Recycling and / or Dispoasl of Inert Waste RubbleCyngor GwyneddCloses in 2 days
- Cleaning Services - Shipston High SchoolShipston High SchoolCloses in 2 days
- New Grounds Maintenance Contract - Old Basing & Lychpit Parish CouncilOld Basing & Lychpit Parish CouncilCloses in 2 days
- Grounds MaintenanceBroadacres Housing AssociationCloses in 2 days
- T26/27-013 DIIB Catering and Bar OperatorLisburn and Castlereagh City councilCloses in 2 days
- Cleaning Services - Shipston High SchoolShipston High SchoolCloses in 2 days
- Grounds MaintenanceBroadacres Housing AssociationCloses in 2 days
- Cleaning Services - Shipston High SchoolShipston High SchoolCloses in 2 days
- Cyngor Gwynedd Framework Agreement for Recycling and / or Dispoasl of Inert Waste RubbleCyngor GwyneddCloses in 2 days
- Cyngor Gwynedd Framework Agreement for Recycling and / or Dispoasl of PlasterboardCyngor GwyneddCloses in 2 days
- New Grounds Maintenance Contract - Old Basing & Lychpit Parish CouncilOld Basing & Lychpit Parish CouncilCloses in 3 days
- Cleaning Services FrameworkDelta Academies TrustCloses in 3 days
- The Provision of Window Cleaning and Associated Cleans for Caerphilly County Borough Council's Corporate PropertiesCaerphilly County Borough CouncilCloses in 3 days
Sound familiar?
Most small firms don't lose public contracts on price. They lose them before they start.
A good tender sits in your inbox for five days.
By the time you start, there's one weekend left to write nine answers. So you rush it, or skip it.
You pay a bid writer £1,000 and still lose on quality.
They don't know your sites, your staff or your results, so the answers read like everyone else's.
You bid for contracts you were never going to win.
One missing accreditation or reference on page 40 of the pack rules you out, after days of work.
CleanTender fixes all three: find it the day it's published, check it in one click, write it from your own evidence.
See howHow it works
From tender to finished bid in five steps.
Do the maths
One win pays for CleanTender many times over.
Move the sliders to your own numbers.
We started you at the median value of the live soft FM tenders on CleanTender today. Change any number to match your business.
Profit from one win
£81,000
That's 68× what a full year of CleanTender Pro costs (£1,188).
A bid writer for 6 bids at £1,000 each: £6,000
CleanTender Pro for a year, unlimited bids: £1,188
You keep £4,812 before you've won anything.
Card required for the Pro trial. Prices exclude VAT; £990 a year if you pay annually.
Everything in your free trial
Your whole bid team for £99 a month. One bid writer invoice is £1,000.
- Every live soft FM tender, matched to you each morningInstead of an alert service that sends you every contract in the country
- Buyers planning to tender, before the tender goes liveInstead of hearing about it on launch day with weeks to respond
- One-click tender check: fit score, deal-breakers and what to fixInstead of three days on a bid you were never going to win
- Bid answers written from your own profile and evidenceInstead of £1,000 or more per bid to a bid writer
- One-click claim check on every answerInstead of an evaluator marking you down for a claim you can't prove
- Social Value answers matched to the buyerInstead of guessing which framework the council scores against
- Download the finished bid as Word, ready for the portalInstead of copying and pasting between five documents
- Compliance Vault with expiry reminders for certificates and insuranceInstead of a lapsed certificate knocking you out of a bid
Your first 7 days
£0
Then £99 a month, or £990 a year, for every bid you send. A bid writer charges around £1,000 for one.
- Card required for the trial
- Unlimited bid drafts on Pro
- Cancel any time from your billing page
- Drop to the free plan if you don't upgrade
Prices exclude VAT.
Sectors we cover
Cleaning, security, grounds, waste, catering. Five sectors, one place.
Every live public-sector tender in your sector, in one place. Tap a sector to see what's open today, free and with no account.
Cleaning
Schools, NHS, councils, leisure centres, civic offices.
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Security
Manned guarding, mobile patrol, CCTV, key holding.
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Grounds maintenance
Parks, school estates, council depots, tree surgery.
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Waste & hygiene
Refuse, recycling, clinical waste, hazardous disposal.
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Catering
School meals, NHS catering, workplace canteens.
Browse tendersWhat is CleanTender?
CleanTender is a UK platform that finds public-sector tenders for small soft facilities management firms and helps them write the bid. It covers cleaning, security, grounds maintenance, waste and catering contracts from councils, schools, the NHS and housing associations.
Right now it lists 247 live soft FM tenders, 48 closing this week, and 409 buyers planning to tender. Tenders are refreshed every day from Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland. Pro costs £99 a month, and new accounts can try Pro free for seven days after adding a card.
Straight answers
Questions contractors ask us first
Is an AI-written bid good enough to win?
CleanTender writes from your profile and your evidence: your contracts, references, accreditations and results. One click claim-checks each answer against your evidence, and you can edit anything before you download it. You stay in charge of the bid; CleanTender does the heavy lifting.
I've never bid for a public contract. Is this for me?
Yes. Start with the free Tender Check: paste any tender and see your fit score and what's missing, in plain English. When you're ready, the bid writer takes you through it one question at a time.
What if there's nothing in my area?
Look before you sign up. The live directory is free and needs no account. Filter by sector and region and see exactly what's open today.
Do I need a card for the trial?
Yes. You get 7 days of full Pro after adding a card. If you don't upgrade, you move to the free plan and keep browsing tenders. Nothing is charged.
Which sectors do you cover?
All five soft FM sectors: cleaning, security, grounds maintenance, waste and catering, from councils, the NHS, schools, universities, housing associations and central government across the UK.
Can I cancel?
Yes, any time, from your billing page. There's no contract and no cancellation fee.
Step-by-step playbooks for UK soft FM bidders
66 sector-tuned playbooks, comparisons, and tool reviews covering scoring matrices, pricing, method statements, social value, and the named compliance evaluators look for. Search by sector, accreditation, or acronym (BICSc, SIA, NPTC, FHRS, PPN…).
Cleaning
How to win cleaning tenders
BICSc, COSHH, TUPE, scoring matrices
Read playbookSecurity
How to win security tenders
SIA ACS, BS 7858, Martyn's Law
Read playbookGrounds
How to win grounds tenders
BS 7370, NPTC PA1/PA6, biodiversity
Read playbookWaste
How to win waste tenders
Simpler Recycling, EPR, ISO 14001
Read playbookCatering
How to win catering tenders
GBSF, Natasha's Law, FHRS, HACCP
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School Cleaning Tenders: What Headteachers and MATs Look For (2026)
School cleaning contracts are bought three ways: single-school tenders run by the school or a procurement adviser, MAT-wide tenders across a trust's academies, and local authority or DfE-approved frameworks. CleanTender logged 83 school and academy cleaning notices by September 2026, with a median published value of about £1.0m and most new contracts running about three years. Buyers score safeguarding (enhanced DBS under KCSIE 2026), working around the school day, holiday cleans, TUPE handling and local management. Here is what they want and how to write it.
15 min read
Bid Writing Examples UK: 7 Tender Answers Scored Weak vs Strong (2026)
A high-scoring tender answer repeats the buyer's question back as a commitment, proves it with a number, names who does what and when, and shows how the buyer can check it. This guide gives seven UK bid writing examples (cleaning, security, grounds maintenance, waste, catering, social value and mobilisation with TUPE), each written twice, weak and strong, and scored on a published 0-5 council scale.
16 min read
Cleaning Contracts for Sale (UK): Buy a Round or Win Your Own?
You can buy private cleaning contracts and rounds in the UK. You can't buy public-sector ones. Here's how a purchase really works (TUPE, assignment, client consent, retention), when it beats bidding, and when tendering is the cheaper route to the same growth.
10 min read
Window Cleaning Tenders UK: Where to Find Them and How to Win (2026)
UK public-sector window cleaning tenders appear on Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales, eTendersNI and council portals. Buyers are councils, housing associations, universities, colleges, schools and NHS trusts. They want a Work at Height Regulations 2005 method statement built on water-fed poles, SSIP accreditation such as CHAS, the right insurance, and a clear per-visit price schedule. Here is where to look, what they score, and when to walk away.
12 min read
Facilities Management Tenders: How to Find and Win UK FM Contracts (2026)
A facilities management tender is a public buyer's invitation to bid for an FM contract. It covers FM services either bundled into one contract (Total FM) or broken into single service lines like cleaning, security, grounds, waste, or catering. The government's own frameworks split FM into Total, Hard, and Soft lots, and the Soft FM lot maps directly onto those five services. Here is who buys FM, where the notices publish, and why single-service lots are the realistic entry point for most SMEs.
14 min read
Security Tenders: How to Find, Bid and Win UK Contracts (2026)
A security tender is a public invitation to bid for a guarding, patrol, CCTV or key-holding contract. UK buyers publish them free on Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales, eTendersNI and council e-procurement portals. From 1 January 2026, contracts worth £207,720+ (inc VAT) from councils, NHS trusts and housing associations must appear on Find a Tender. Here is where to look, how to set free alerts, what the contracts are worth, and how to bid.
14 min read
Cleaning Tenders: How to Find, Bid and Win UK Contracts (2026)
A cleaning tender is a public invitation to bid for a cleaning contract. UK buyers publish them free on Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales, eTendersNI and council e-procurement portals. From 1 January 2026, contracts worth £207,720+ (inc VAT) from councils, NHS trusts, schools and universities must appear on Find a Tender. Here is where to look, how to set free alerts, what the contracts are worth, and how to bid.
14 min read
Commercial Cleaning Contracts in the UK: The 2026 Buyer and Contractor Guide
A commercial cleaning contract is a written agreement between a business and a cleaning provider that defines scope, frequency, service levels, audit method, TUPE liability, GDPR handling, and pricing. UK contracts in 2026 are priced against the National Living Wage at £12.71/hour and must reference BICSc skills, NHS Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2025 (in healthcare), COSHH, BS EN 1276 efficacy, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. Here is the complete buyer-and-contractor playbook.
18 min read
48 soft FM tenders close in the next 7 days
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