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Electrical installation contracts

UK public sector · 167 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
167
Last 12 months
Median contract
£129k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£159m
145 of 152 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
110
Suppliers
150

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

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most electrical installation contracts took 11% of them (19 of 167).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter rose 19% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £129k, is close to the median across construction & trades contracts (£139k).
  • South East had the most contracts: 28, or 17% of the total.

Who buys electrical installation

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

  1. 1NHS Property Services Limited6 contracts
  2. 2Hampshire County Council6 contracts
  3. 3NORWICH CITY SERVICES LIMITED5 contracts
  4. 4WESTWORKS PROCUREMENT LIMITED4 contracts
  5. 5UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)4 contracts
  6. 6Halton Borough Council4 contracts
  7. 7UK Atomic Energy Authority3 contracts
  8. 8Cumberland Council3 contracts
  9. 9City and County of Swansea3 contracts
  10. 10South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts

Top electrical installation contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1KDE Ltd5 contracts
  2. 2Castle Electrical Services Ltd5 contracts
  3. 3J W Bowkett ( Electrical Installations ) Ltd3 contracts
  4. 4CEI Electrical3 contracts
  5. 5ELECTRACT LIMITED3 contracts
  6. 6GB ELECTRICAL SERVICES (SOUTH EAST) LLP2 contracts
  7. 7EE Thompson & Son Ltd2 contracts
  8. 8Lightning Solutions (Wales) Ltd2 contracts
  9. 9Europa Electrical Ltd2 contracts
  10. 10Knight Electrical Ltd2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

33Q4 2025*42Q1 202641Q2 202650Q3 20261Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 146 · Wales 11 · Scotland 8 · Northern Ireland 2

South East28North West19Yorkshire and The Humber17East Midlands17East of England14London13South West13Wales11West Midlands9North East8Scotland6Northern Ireland2UK-wide or not stated10

What is included

General electrical contracting in buildings: new installations, full and partial rewires, consumer unit and distribution board replacement, landlord rising and lateral mains, small power, and planned or reactive electrical repairs under one-off or term contracts.

  • Full and partial rewires
  • Consumer unit and distribution board replacement
  • Landlord rising and lateral mains in blocks of flats
  • Small power, lighting and power points in new installations
  • Term, reactive and small-works electrical maintenance
  • Power supplies to fans and plant

What is not included

  • Periodic testing, EICRs and their remedials (con.elec.fixed-wire-testing-eicr)
  • Lighting-only replacement (con.elec.lighting-and-led-upgrades)
  • HV, main LV switchgear and site power networks (con.elec.hv-lv-distribution)
  • Electrical work inside housing responsive repairs or void contracts (con.repair.responsive-repairs, con.repair.void-works)
  • Combined M&E installation packages (con.me.me-installation)
  • Fire alarm systems (con.fire.fire-detection-and-alarms)
  • Structured data cabling (it.tel.structured-cabling)

Often bought by the same buyers