Service market

Building services maintenance contracts

UK public sector · 56 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
56
Last 12 months
Median contract
£646k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£151m
50 of 56 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
47
Suppliers
62

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most building services maintenance contracts took 21% of them (12 of 56).
  • The median contract, £646k, is 4.7 times the median across construction & trades contracts (£139k).
  • London had the most contracts: 12, or 21% of the total.

Who buys building services maintenance

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Dacorum Borough Council3 contracts
  2. 2The Education Authority2 contracts
  3. 3The Royal Household2 contracts
  4. 4Canterbury City Council2 contracts
  5. 5Wiltshire Council2 contracts
  6. 6LTE Group2 contracts
  7. 7Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts
  8. 8Mosscare St Vincent's Housing Group2 contracts
  9. 9Peabody1 contract
  10. 10C2C RAILWAY LIMITED1 contract

Top building services maintenance contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Sureserve (Aaron Services)4 contracts
  2. 2Key Integrated Services4 contracts
  3. 3C H C GROUP LTD2 contracts
  4. 4BGIS Global Integrated Solutions2 contracts
  5. 5Irwin ME Ltd2 contracts
  6. 6MICHAEL NUGENT LTD2 contracts
  7. 7ROBERT HEATH HEATING LIMITED2 contracts
  8. 8Kimpton Ltd2 contracts
  9. 9DFP Services2 contracts
  10. 10Wessex Electricals2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

9Q4 2025*16Q1 202619Q2 202612Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 53 · Northern Ireland 2 · Scotland 1

London12North West11East of England6South East5South West5East Midlands3North East2Yorkshire and The Humber2West Midlands2Northern Ireland2Scotland1UK-wide or not stated5

What is included

Planned preventive maintenance and reactive repair of several mechanical and electrical building systems under one contract or lot, without building fabric.

  • M&E PPM and reactive maintenance
  • Mechanical-only contracts naming several plant types (boilers, water heaters, AC)
  • On-site M&E engineers
  • M&E works and services frameworks
  • E&M repairs including fire pumps

What is not included

  • M&E plus building fabric (con.me.hard-fm)
  • Compliance-framed testing programmes (con.me.statutory-compliance)
  • Single-system term contracts (their own service, for example con.lifts.passenger-goods-lifts or con.fire.fire-detection-and-alarms)
  • M&E installation projects (con.me.me-installation)
  • BMS maintenance let on its own (con.mech.building-management-systems)
  • Integrated FM with soft services (cln.ifm.total-integrated-fm)
  • MEICA on water and flood assets (con.civils.pumping-stations, con.civils.water-sewer-networks)

Often bought by the same buyers