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title: "12132 Highway Weed Spraying Service (2024 – 2027)"
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# 12132 Highway Weed Spraying Service (2024 – 2027)

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/12132-highway-weed-spraying-service-2024-2027-ocds-h6vhtk-043bd9). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Rochdale Borough Council: "12132 Highway Weed Spraying Service (2024 – 2027)". Published status: complete. Published Value: £360,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 22 Mar 2024, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: www.the-chest.org.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Rochdale Borough Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/rochdale-borough-council-ons-e08000005)
- **Published Value:** £360,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 22 March 2024 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Weed-clearance services
- **Delivery Location:** UKD3
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £409,631 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-043bd9`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/12132-highway-weed-spraying-service-2024-2027-ocds-h6vhtk-043bd9#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [the-chest.org.uk](/out?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.the-chest.org.uk)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/12132-highway-weed-spraying-service-2024-2027-ocds-h6vhtk-043bd9#participate

## Description
The works consists of up to 3 applications (per annum) of approved herbicide to all of the
adopted highway footpaths (circa 1280km consisting of tarmac, slabs, block paving, etc.),
back of path edges, walkways, splitter islands, channels, ginnels, edges of all metalled roads
and all cobbled areas throughout the borough of Rochdale to provide as near to as possible
total weed control.
The overall aim is to achieve as close as possible 100% total weed control.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete

- **Delivery regions:** UKD

- **Description:** To achieve a cleaner more attractive borough, the council is tendering for a weed spraying
service to treat specific areas of adopted highway across the borough to prevent the growth
of weeds likely to interfere with the highway e.g. create a hazard,...
- **Contract Period:** 12/05/2024 to 12/05/2027
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 020279-2024-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Dobson UK Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-117511`
  - Value: £409,631 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 020279-2024-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £409,631
  - Signed Date: 23/06/2024

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F020279-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-07-03T12:12:39.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-26T05:09:21.243Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-043bd9