Sell2Wales is now on EVTenders

We have added Sell2Wales to EVTenders. It matters because Wales's public bodies advertise their tenders on Sell2Wales, and many of the smaller notices there never reach the UK-wide Find a Tender service. Here is what that adds, from a community energy tender open until Monday to a 75 kW charger at an ambulance station.

Where Wales's tenders actually publish

Sell2Wales is the Welsh Government's procurement website, and it is where councils, health boards, universities and community organisations in Wales advertise. The bigger contracts are also advertised on Find a Tender. Much of the rest stays on Sell2Wales alone: smaller contracts, fleet purchases a few vans at a time, and tenders from community energy companies.

That second layer is what we have just added: 117 EV notices from Sell2Wales, going back to 2016. We found none of them among the Find a Tender or Contracts Finder notices on EVTenders, so until now they were only findable on Sell2Wales itself. We read every one and give you the useful version: what the buyer wants, what stage it is at, and whether it is still open. And Sell2Wales award notices name the supplier, so you can see who has been awarded what.

Open now, and what is coming

One Welsh tender is open now:

• Ynni Bro Rhian's renewable energy tender: rooftop solar, battery storage and EV charging at two farms in Pembrokeshire, as one integrated system. Bids close on Monday 19 October at 8am. The project depends on a grant from Ynni Cymru. This one is on Sell2Wales only.

And five more are at the pre-market stage, so watch for their tenders:

• Transport for Wales is working on how charging in bus depots should be installed, managed and owned, so that depots across the country can run "battery electric buses". The planning notice puts it at £8.5 million.
• NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership plans EV chargers and a solar battery at its Denbigh stores, to electrify the courier fleet that supplies hospitals across North Wales. It depends on grant funding.
• Ambition North Wales is looking for a partner to run a group-buying scheme for home solar, batteries and EV chargers, for the six North Wales councils.
• Wrexham County Borough Council is planning two trials: five electric vans for a year in its housing team, which has 91 diesel vans today, and home chargers for council vans that recognise the vehicle without a card or an app.
• Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council is retendering its fleet maintenance, for a fleet that includes 54 electric light goods vehicles and 3 electric heavy goods vehicles.

Already on Find a Tender

Sell2Wales is the new piece, but Wales's biggest EV contracts have been on Find a Tender all along, and we already carry them.

Councils are letting long charging contracts. The Isle of Anglesey County Council has provisionally awarded Plug (EV Stations) a concession to run charge points at about 15 sites on the island, running to 2041. Conwy County Borough Council has provisionally appointed Believ for EV charging across the county, on a ten-year contract that can be extended by three. And Newport City Council awarded Urban Fox Networks £400,000 to install 19 on-street charge points, after the original supplier could not deliver the rest.

Buses and waste equipment too. Transport for Wales awarded EVenergi £174,000 for a fleet modelling system to plan zero-emission buses, from energy use to charging needs and total cost of ownership. And Merthyr Tydfil bought two electric mobile skip roll packers from Bergmann Direct for £341,480, with five years of servicing.

What Sell2Wales adds

A handful of the new notices shows the range.

Who is being awarded the charging contracts. Swarco has been awarded five Welsh public charging contracts on Sell2Wales since 2023: Bridgend County Borough Council's ULEV charging in 2023 and its charging installation in 2025, the Welsh Government's charge points for its Cadwraeth depots in 2023 and DC charge points for Cadw in 2025, and 40 charging units for Bangor University in 2024. Others are in the record too: the Welsh Government bought EV chargers for SA1 from Zest Eco for £99,038, Qualifications Wales chose Plug (EV Stations), and Swansea awarded Clenergy EV a contract to install and maintain fast chargers.

How they buy. Many of these went through frameworks rather than open tenders. Three of Swarco's five came through ESPO's Vehicle Charging Infrastructure 2 framework and one through Efficiency East Midlands' charging framework. Qualifications Wales used the Welsh Government's own EV Charging Infrastructure framework, and Ceredigion bought its vans through the Welsh Government's Electric Vehicle Purchase framework. If you sell charging in Wales, those frameworks are the way in.

Charging where people work and study. Aberystwyth University went to tender for four 22 kW fast chargers at its Penglais campus, and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David for charging across its estate, for staff, students, visitors and the public. The Welsh Ambulance Service has been refitting its stations, each with a 75 kW charger: Pontardawe and Newtown, with solar and low carbon heating as well.

Fleets, a few vehicles at a time. Ceredigion County Council bought six electric vans from Fleetev for £131,420. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board bought five second-hand electric vehicles for £111,975, and Powys Teaching Health Board went to tender for up to six second-hand electric panel vans. And in Swansea, Hyppo Hydrogen Solutions sought a zero-emission bus, battery electric or hydrogen, to trial fleet operations and vehicle-to-grid at Bay Studios. When health boards buy second-hand EVs, the used market is part of the public fleet story.

Community energy. Ynni Bro Rhian's open tender is not alone. Gower Electric awarded Evoenergy the contract for a local smart grid beside its solar farm at Dunvant, with two 50 kW fast chargers. Ynni Teg went to tender for solar and batteries at seven community buildings used as mosques and community centres in South Wales, with EV fast charging at four of them. And Carmarthenshire County Council put e-bike charging at eight sites with partners who agreed to pay for the power.

Why it is worth watching

Put it together and Wales is electrifying at every scale: Transport for Wales planning depot charging for battery electric buses, councils letting charging contracts that run for ten years and more, and health boards, universities and community energy groups each adding a few chargers or vans at a time. With a tender open until Monday and five more at the pre-market stage, there is something to act on now as well as a picture of where the market is going.

One honest note. Most of the Sell2Wales notices are already awarded or closed, so they are intelligence about who is buying and who is being awarded, rather than live opportunities you can still bid on. We mark the stage on every one, so you always know what is a live bid and what is a signal for next time.

See all tenders in Wales