Fixed-price bid writing for housing repairs contractors

By ClearBid Research · Updated October 2026

We write and check council and housing association repairs tenders at fixed, published prices: a Health Check of your own draft from £195 (founding price; standard £395), a full Response Draft from £795. We write for one firm per lot. In 12 months of repairs awards, the median tender drew 6 bids and 65% of winners filed small or micro company accounts, so small firms do win this work.

Repairs tenders in numbers

Measure	Figure	Based on
Repairs contracts (lots) awarded in 12 months	339	councils and housing associations, England and Wales, £100k to £4m
Median bids per competed lot	6	510 competed lots; middle half 3 to 10
Of bids came from SMEs	56%	510 competed lots
Of winners file small or micro accounts	65%	331 awards matched to Companies House
Median share of marks for quality	50%	480 lots with a published weighting; middle half 30% to 70%
Of lots give quality more than half the marks	47%	480 lots with a published weighting
Let through open or competitive tenders	62%	433 lots; 22% framework or DPS set-ups, 16% direct awards

Source: ClearBid analysis of Find a Tender and Contracts Finder notices, October 2025 to October 2026, matched to Companies House. Housing association and council repairs contracts worth £100,000 to £4 million in England and Wales. Repairs here means repairs, voids, electrical, fire safety, damp and mould, and pest control. How we work these out.

What this means for where you bid

Choose tenders where the writing decides it. Only 47% of repairs tenders with a published weighting gave quality more than half the marks. On the rest, price carries at least as much weight as your answers. The free Bid Matcher shows the weighting for each live tender that fits you.
Most work is openly tendered. 62% of repairs lots were open or competitive tenders, 22% were framework or dynamic purchasing system set-ups and 16% direct awards.
Expect firms your own size. 56% of bids came from SMEs.

Registers we check for repairs bids

Buyers check the accreditations you claim. So before a bid goes out, your reviewer checks each one against its public register, by hand where the register doesn't allow automated checks. We're appointing experienced UK bid writers; every bid we write or check is reviewed before it reaches you, and nothing is delivered until a reviewer is in place.

Prices

Tender Breakdown: Every question, weighting, word limit, pass/fail rule and date from one tender pack, in plain English, with the buyer's award history from published notices. From £95
Health Check: Send us a bid you've written, yourself or with AI. We estimate the score of every question on the buyer's own scale and list the 10 fixes worth the most marks. From £195
Response Draft: We write your whole quality response from your own evidence: every answer to its marking criteria and word limit, checked against the full tender pack. From £795
Bid Radar: A weekly email of live council, housing association and care tenders that fit your trades and area, and a 24-month calendar of contracts coming up for re-tender, from published award notices. From £49 a month

Fixed prices, no VAT added. Founding prices where shown. All services, sample deliverables or get a fixed price for your tender.

Repairs tenders by trade and region

Live tenders, contracts ending in the next 12 months and the main buyers, rebuilt every night.

Electrical and EICR testing: East Midlands, London, West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber.

Fire safety: London, South East England.

Gas and heating: South East England.

Responsive repairs: East Midlands, East of England, London, North West England, South East England, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber.

Void repairs: London.

A trade and region gets a page once our data holds enough contracts. All trades and regions.

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Questions

What should I look for in a bid writing service for housing repairs?

Three things you can check before you pay: a fixed price for your tender rather than a day rate, a promise not to write for your competitor on the same lot, and a writer who knows how repairs tenders are marked. ClearBid publishes all three: prices from £195 (founding price; standard £395) for a Health Check and £795 for a Response Draft, one firm per lot, and our own award data on repairs tenders.

Is there a fixed-price bid writing service for small businesses in the UK?

Yes. Every ClearBid price is fixed and published, and agreed before you pay. A Response Draft is priced by the scored words the tender asks for, from £795; we read the pack and show the price first. Our guide to what bid writers cost compares day rates and consultancy prices.

How do I bid for a responsive repairs and voids contract with a housing association?

Check the weighting first: in our data the median repairs tender gave quality 50% of the marks, and only 47% gave it more than half. Then answer every question to the marking scheme with your own figures. Our guide to winning housing association repairs contracts goes through it with the award data.

Do you check our Gas Safe, NICEIC or CHAS?

Yes, by hand. Those registers don't allow automated checks, so your reviewer checks the number, holder and expiry on the public register before a bid goes out. An unchecked accreditation is never presented as verified.

Will you price the schedule of rates?

No. We never write or advise on pricing. You price the work and submit the bid yourself.

Sources

ClearBid award statistics and method. Source: ClearBid analysis of Find a Tender and Contracts Finder notices, October 2025 to October 2026, matched to Companies House. Housing association and council repairs contracts worth £100,000 to £4 million in England and Wales.
ClearBid sector findings (scripts/sector-findings.mts). Damp and mould contracts since 2019

Public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. See who ClearBid Research is and how our figures are built.