Signage - National Framework

Buyer
Forestry Commission
Value
£2,000,000
Closes
19 November 2026
Where
Bristol
Type
Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)

In plain English

Forestry England wants to set up a long-term supplier framework for manufacturing and installing wooden and panel signage across their forests. This is a national contract worth around £2 million, split into four lots depending on whether you offer installation services and what type of signs you make.

What the buyer wants

• Manufacture, deliver and install wooden and panel-based signage (such as waymarker posts, threshold signs and graphic panels) depending on which lot you bid for • Some lots require full installation; others are production and delivery only • Fulfil orders of varying sizes throughout the contract duration • Attend a mandatory Microsoft Teams briefing event to understand the full specification and requirements

Lots

Likely requirements

Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.

If you're a one-person operation or have no experience manufacturing signage at scale, this framework will be extremely difficult to win: it's a national contract with variable order volumes and tight timescales that demand production capacity, installation teams, and operational resilience that most very small businesses lack.

How to bid

This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.

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