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What site preparation work sells for
Read from 16 UK public contract awards. Every figure below states how many jobs are behind it.
What it went for
£416,890
the middle of 16 awards, from £10,249 to £22,835,000
Half of all site preparation awards fell between £61,951 and £2,769,036.
When site preparation work comes out to bid
May is the busiest month and March the quietest — 12 against 1, across one full year.
- January: 3 advertised
- February: 5 advertised
- March: 1 advertised
- April: 4 advertised
- May: 12 advertised
- June: 10 advertised
- July: 5 advertised
- August: 5 advertised
- September: 3 advertised
- October: 1 advertised
- November: 2 advertised
- December: 3 advertised
counted on tenders advertised, which is what a contractor plans around — a month with nothing held is shown as a dash, never a zero
Where these figures come from
Every figure is read from contract award notices published by UK public bodies — councils, NHS trusts, housing associations, government departments — under the Open Government Licence. Nothing is estimated, modelled or filled in. A figure appears only once enough awards support it, and it always states how many.
The figures are rebuilt each night, last on 6 August 2026. They cover publicly tendered work, which is not the same as domestic or private commercial work: a price here is what a public body paid a contractor on a contract that went through a formal tender.
Other trades
- Whole buildings£1,102,500
- Roads & groundworks£220,000
- Roofing£252,053
- Water & drainage£163,755
- Demolition & earthworks£117,169
- Finishing work£250,018
- Electrical£146,686
- Civil engineering£203,817
- Plumbing£189,548
- Joinery & carpentry£345,051
- Fencing£247,631
- Heating & ventilation£132,802
- Painting & glazing£158,750
- Industrial & energy£315,049
- Insulation£364,009
- Floor & wall coverings£400,000
- Earthmoving plant hire£104,000
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