We seek capable subcontractors who want access to complex projects — and can operate inside disciplined commercial, safety and reporting controls.
A note on what we buy: ETABLIX is not a main contractor and does not tender permanent building works. We buy the temporary site environment around the permanent works — so if you build the structure, we are not your client; if you establish, service, operate or remove the site around it, we are.
We buy across the complete site lifecycle — from the drawings before the first fence panel to the last square metre of reinstatement. Find your trade below; register under the matching category in the form.
Design, survey & temporary works engineering — site-layout and logistics design, utility surveys and mapping, temporary works design and checking (BS 5975), drainage and environmental planning.
Pre-mobilisation design packages and temporary-works certification before ground is broken.
Temporary & enabling civil works — earthworks, cabin bases, temporary roads, hardstanding, drainage. Ground protection, trackway & wheel-wash — access matting, geotextiles, wheel-wash stations. Fencing, hoarding & signage — perimeter systems, gates, site signage. Traffic management — Chapter 8 accredited highway and site TM.
Fast, sequenced mobilisation works — and clean removal at demobilisation.
Temporary power, generators & fuel — generation, distribution, fuel supply and management. Temporary MEP & building services — electrics, lighting, HVAC, plumbing, fire and controls. Water, wastewater & sanitation — supply, storage, tankering, sewage treatment, toilet servicing. IT, telecoms & connectivity — site broadband, Wi-Fi, satellite and comms rooms.
Energisation and commissioning to programme, then reliable operation across every shift.
Modular buildings & site cabins — offices, welfare blocks, drying rooms and relocatable buildings. Camp & worker accommodation — sleeping accommodation, worker villages and campus operations. Plant, equipment & furniture hire — lighting towers, storage containers, office and welfare fit-out, small plant.
Supply, install, maintain and demobilise across long programmes.
Security & access — guarding, CCTV, access control, gate operations. Catering & living services — catering, housekeeping, laundry, village operations. Cleaning & soft FM — construction and welfare cleaning, hygiene, consumables. Waste management & recycling — segregation, skips, haulage, hazardous waste. Medical & first-aid services — site medics and occupational health. Logistics & materials handling — deliveries, fleet, plant movement, marshalling. Workforce transport — buses, shuttles, park-and-ride and driver management. Maintenance & fault response — planned and reactive maintenance across all systems.
Service-level operation, every day of the programme, with evidenced performance.
Environmental & closeout — dust, noise and pest control, ecology, monitoring, temporary works removal, land reinstatement and closeout evidence.
Documented removal, reinstatement and handover the landowner accepts first time.
Temporary civil and MEP contractors are in priority demand — alongside the full operating stack below.
Twelve weighted criteria. Four are critical — financial standing, HSE, insurance and ethical standards: a zero on any of these fails the assessment outright, whatever the total. Registration numbers are verified against the Companies House register, and every assessment is recorded with its scores, evidence and named assessor.
Registration is the first step — not a guarantee of work. Every supplier is scored against twelve weighted prequalification criteria:
Financial strength, credit and insolvency indicators · relevant project references and resource capacity · HSE record, competence and CDM arrangements · insurance and required limits · quality and environmental systems · modern slavery, labour, accommodation and ethical standards · business continuity and emergency response · cybersecurity and data handling where connected systems are used · acceptance of reporting, EVM, evidence and change processes · complete demobilisation and reinstatement method · legal, tax and licensing standing · sub-tier supply chain resilience.
Financial standing, HSE, insurance and ethical standards are critical criteria — no total score compensates for failing one. Our expectations are set out in the ETABLIX Supplier Code and our Modern Slavery Statement.
Not a promise about how we intend to work — the system is live. Once you are prequalified you get a secure portal where you see every enquiry, every application for payment and its certification status.
Ten minutes. Select up to five of the service categories above, tell us your territories and capability, attach anything you already hold.
Immediate acknowledgement with your reference.
The evidence stage. Twelve sections mapped one-to-one to our assessment criteria — turnover, insolvency history, references, RIDDOR and SSIP, insurance limits, quality certification, modern slavery and right-to-work, continuity, cyber, demobilisation method, tax and licensing, sub-tier resilience — plus your certificates.
A private link, valid 30 days. Certificates beat statements.
Scored against the twelve weighted criteria by a named assessor, with your registration number verified against the Companies House register. Nothing is decided by a system alone.
The outcome in writing — and if we do not take you forward, the specific areas that fell short, so you can register again when they are resolved.
You set up your own payment structure once: bank account, CIS status, VAT, commercial and director contacts, and written acceptance of the framework terms. Bank details are verified by a call-back to your director before any payment is released — and any change re-triggers that check.
Portal access, and protection against invoice-redirection fraud in both directions.
Packages arrive in your portal. Where confidentiality applies, the requirement and documents open once you accept the undertaking. You price it there — sum, programme, clarifications and exclusions. An agreed price becomes a numbered purchase order which, with the framework terms, forms your contract.
A written order before work starts. Never a verbal instruction.
You raise applications in the portal against your order, with the delivery records, sign-offs and photographs that evidence them. We certify against that evidence and issue a payment notice stating the sum and its basis — including, where we certify less than claimed, exactly why.
A payment notice, then a remittance breakdown showing certified value, retention held and the sum paid to your verified account.
Registration is the first step — not a guarantee of work. Suppliers are assessed against project-specific capacity, competence, safety, quality, insurance and commercial requirements.
Questions before registering? Email contact@etablix.com.
