THE NATIONAL FOREST COMPANY: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
71 Architectural, construction, engineering1 procedures · 11%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet1 procedures · 11%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting1 procedures · 11%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 9 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
- Contract 100% (9 notices)
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
- Limited / restricted 89% (8 notices)
- Open 11% (1 notices)
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 9 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| C.J. Springthorpe LTD | 3 | 33.3% | 3 | 3 | 9 Feb 2026 |
| JMU Services Limited | 1 | 11.1% | 1 | 1 | 14 Jul 2026 |
| SMALL WORLD CONSULTING LIMITED | 1 | 11.1% | 1 | 1 | 30 Jun 2025 |
| Leicestershire Victoria County History Trust | 1 | 11.1% | 1 | 1 | 18 Dec 2025 |
| Heligan Gardens Limited | 1 | 11.1% | 1 | 1 | 14 Jan 2026 |
| Lindley Productions Limited | 1 | 11.1% | 1 | 1 | 19 Feb 2026 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN | 1 | 11.1% | 1 | 1 | 18 Dec 2025 |
9 awarded procedures across 7 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Estate Maintenance | C.J. Springthorpe LTD | — | 2 yrs | £175,000 † ≈ £88k/yr |
| Open grounding mowing | C.J. Springthorpe LTD | — | 3 yrs | £153,549 † ≈ £51k/yr |
| Feasibility for a Forest Enterprise Hub | Heligan Gardens Limited | — | 3 mo | £64,960 † |
| Community Archaeology Test-Pit Excavations in Charnwood Forest | UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN | — | 1.1 yrs | £50,540 † ≈ £47k/yr |
| 'GEOPARK IN THE DARK' | Lindley Productions Limited | — | 2 mo | £46,660 † |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 9 of 9 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Tree Planting Evaluation and ECF Porta | JMU Services Limited | 30 Nov 2026 | £26,956 |
| Charnwood Forest Geopark Historical Research Project | Leicestershire Victoria County History Trust | 31 Dec 2026 | £45,000 |
| Community Archaeology Test-Pit Excavations in Charnwood Forest | UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN | 31 Dec 2026 | £50,540 |
| Estate Maintenance | C.J. Springthorpe LTD | 31 Dec 2027 | £175,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 9 of 9 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Tree Planting Evaluation and ECF Portal | Awarded / complete | 14 Jul 2026 | — |
| 'GEOPARK IN THE DARK' | Awarded / complete | 19 Feb 2026 | — |
| Hedge cutting | Awarded / complete | 9 Feb 2026 | — |
| Open grounding mowing | Awarded / complete | 9 Feb 2026 | — |
| Estate Maintenance | Awarded / complete | 9 Feb 2026 | — |
| Feasibility for a Forest Enterprise HubBusiness development consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 14 Jan 2026 | £65,000 |
| Community Archaeology Test-Pit Excavations in Charnwood Forest | Awarded / complete | 18 Dec 2025 | — |
| Charnwood Forest Geopark Historical Research Project | Awarded / complete | 18 Dec 2025 | — |
| Landscape assessment to inform the National Forest Company forest creation strategy | Awarded / complete | 30 Jun 2025 | — |
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£65k, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 9 award records on 9 procedures (9 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 9 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 9 of 9 published contracts carry a period end; 4 end within 18 months, 3 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.