Every tool below carries UK public tenders. Only one is built for EV charging.
Each tender on EVTenders is public information you could gather yourself, for free, across Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI. So could a horizontal platform like Stotles or Tussell, for every sector at once. The difference is knowing which notices are about EV charging, including ones buried inside bigger contracts, and who has been awarded that work before. That is the whole product, and no all-sector tool is built to do it.
The best EV work is often not labelled "EV"
The highest-value charging work is often a line inside a highways framework, a regeneration scheme, a depot rebuild. A keyword search will never surface it. We classify every notice for EV relevance, so the bundled opportunities show up next to the obvious ones.
How EVTenders compares
| Feature | EVTenders | Official UK portals | BidStats | Stotles | Tussell | Tenders Direct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Focus | UK EV charging, only | All UK public tenders (raw) | All UK/global tenders | All UK public sector | All UK public sector | All UK/RoI tenders (alerts) |
| EV-relevance classification incl. charging work bundled inside bigger contracts | Yes, every notice checked | No | No | No | No | No |
| LEVI funding pipeline councils funded, not yet tendered | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Charger specs / product data | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Who is awarded the work | Yes, from EV award history | No | Partly, buyer data (all sectors) | Partly, buyer signals (all sectors) | Partly, supplier + framework intel (all sectors) | No |
| Award history awarded to, value, term | Yes, EV, analysed | Partly, published, not analysed | Partly, listed (5yr; 10yr on Insights) | Partly, all sectors | Yes, all sectors, deep | Partly, 7yr, all sectors |
| Alerts / watch | Yes | Partly, basic saved search | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, core product |
| Free to use | Yes, free to browse | Yes, free (raw notices) | Yes, freemium | Yes, freemium | No, enterprise only | No, paid |
| Price Prices as published in July 2026; Tussell’s is an estimate. | Free; Pro £79/month · £790/year | Free | Free; Pro £800/yr; Insights £5k+ | Free; £50/user/mo; £475/mo | ~£11.4k/yr (est., G-Cloud 2024) | From £1,359/yr |
What each tool is
Written to be fair. Every option below is a real, capable product; the difference is the EV lens, not quality.
The free official UK portals where public tenders are published: Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, with Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Complete at source, and free. No EV lens, no analysis, no funding-pipeline view; raw notices you filter yourself.
A low-cost, self-serve aggregator of UK and international public tenders. Broad and cheap; generalist, with no sector specialism or bid analysis.
A well-funded horizontal public-sector sales-intelligence platform (freemium, with a free AI bid/no-bid report and paid buyer-intelligence tiers). Strong for all-sector B2G pipeline; EV charging is one slice of everything they cover.
The premium, enterprise UK public-sector market-intelligence tool, uniquely strong on framework-to-call-off matching and all-sector spend data. Deep and horizontal; priced and built for whole-of-government analyst teams, not an EV charging bidder.
A long-established generalist UK and Republic of Ireland tender alert service (BiP Solutions). Scans 500+ sources daily with human review, a 7-year contract-and-award database, and advance-renewal forecasting. Broad and well-regarded across every sector; no EV specialism, classification or funding-pipeline view. From £1,359/yr.
Other all-sector platforms (Tracker, OpenOpps and similar) carry EV tenders un-separated, like the tools above.
See every open UK EV charging tender in one place. Free to browse, no card needed.
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