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Published 25 Sept 2026, 09:39 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Abertay Housing Association - Landscape Maintenance 2027 - 2030

Authority: Abertay Housing Association (Housing)

3 lotsServicesOpen procedureMax 2 lots per supplier
Budget not disclosedValue not published
Submission deadline 4 Nov 202612:00 GMT · 40d 1h left
Lots 3max 2 per supplier
Contract term 3 yrsextension options published · starts 1 Apr 2027
Bids per lot · the market 3CPV 7731 · n=96 · competition analysis ↓

What is being bought3 lots · detail below

Published requirement description

36 month Landscape Maintenance Services for areas owned by Abertay Housing Association located in Dundee and surrounding areas.

  • Recurrence: October 2029

CPV: Grounds maintenance services

Lots and requirements (3)Procurement structure

3 lots · no lot values published · a supplier may bid for at most 2 and win at most 2 of them · same evaluation weights on every lot
Lot #1Abertay Housing Association - Landscape Maintenance 2027 - 2030 (Lot 1)Renewal 3 yrs
It is Abertay Housing Associations' intention to enter into a contract with a main contractor from 1st April 2027 to 31st March 2030 to deliver their routine open space maintenance and associated reactive repair work to hard and soft landscaped areas owned by the Association. Additional information: TUPE TRANSFER IS APPLICABLE TO LOT 1
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 — 31 Mar 2030 (3 yrs)Delivery: Scotland · Dundee City and surrounding areas
Extensions
Possible 1 + 1 year extension based on Contractor performance.
Variant bids
not allowed
77314000 Grounds maintenance services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Lot #2Abertay Housing Association - Landscape Maintenance 2027 - 2030 (Lot 2)Renewal 3 yrs
It is Abertay Housing Associations' intention to enter into a contract with a main contractor from 1st April 2027 to 31st March 2030 to deliver their routine open space maintenance and associated reactive repair work to hard and soft landscaped areas owned by the Association. Additional information: TUPE TRANSFER IS APPLICABLE TO LOT 2
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 — 31 Mar 2030 (3 yrs)Delivery: Scotland · Dundee city and surrounding areas
Extensions
Possible 1 + 1 year extension based on Contractor performance.
Variant bids
not allowed
77314000 Grounds maintenance services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Lot #3Abertay Housing Association - Landscape Maintenance 2027 - 2030 (Lot 3)Renewal 3 yrs
It is Abertay Housing Associations' intention to enter into a contract with a main contractor from 1st April 2027 to 31st March 2030 to deliver their routine open space maintenance and associated reactive repair work to hard and soft landscaped areas owned by the Association. Additional information: TUPE TRANSFER IS NOT APPLICABLE TO LOT 3
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 — 31 Mar 2030 (3 yrs)Delivery: Scotland · Dundee city and surrounding areas
Extensions
Possible 1 + 1 year extension based on Contractor performance.
Variant bids
not allowed
77314000 Grounds maintenance services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add more
How bids are scored · same split on all 3 lots
Quality: 50%Price: 50%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Quality — 50
  • price — 50
Conditions of participation2
  • Condition of participation
    no text published
    Minimum: Bidders shall be required to have a minimum yearly turnover of 100,000.00 GBP for the last 3 financial years.
  • Technical & professional ability
    Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession
Staff
Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731) in Scotland — and who usually turns up

Abertay Housing Association has too little published record in this market to describe on its own; the Scotland market stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731) →

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How the contest usually goes

Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.

This authority

Abertay Housing Association

no contract notices in Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731) in 36 months

Abertay Housing Association has published no bid reports, no comparable estimate → award pairs and no award dates that this analysis can use — in Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731) (36 months) or across all categories (24 months).

The market · delivery region

Scotland · Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731)

contract notices delivered in Scotland in 36 months: 88 in CPV 7731 (77 competed, 9 route not published) · 153 in division 77 (111 competed, 22 route not published)

Bids per lot
i

How many companies usually bid for work like this.

Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7731), last 36 months: 96 lots. 1 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4) and 95 from older notices (bids received, middle 3).

Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.

3CPV 7731 · 36m · n=96 lots
Single-bid lots
i

How often only one company bid.

Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7731), last 36 months: 96 lots.

High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.

19%CPV 7731 · 36m · n=96 lots
Award vs estimate
i

Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.

Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7731), last 36 months: 14 pairs.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

6% aboveCPV 7731 · 36m · n=14 pairs
Deadline → award date
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7731), last 36 months: 1 notices. Small sample.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

24dCPV 7731 · 36m · n=1 notices
SME bidders
i

How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.

SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7731), last 36 months: 96 lots.

Last 36 months.

74%CPV 7731 · 36m · n=96 lots
Winners based in the region
i

How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.

Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7731), last 36 months: 74 awards.

Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.

Last 36 months.

96%CPV 7731 · 36m · n=74 awards
Bids per lot · history, not this notice’s lots robust · n=96
i

How the number of bidders is spread across lots.

Each lot with a published bid count is put in a band: one bid, two to three, four to six, seven or more. Real competitions only.

Based on 96 lots on 58 contested notices · CPV 7731, last 36 months.

  • 1 bid 19%
  • 2–3 44%
  • 4–6 29%
  • 7+ 8%

Median 3 · 96 lots on 58 contested notices · CPV 7731.

Winning award vs estimate robust · n=14
i

How often winners come in below, near or above the estimate.

Each lot with both an estimate and an award is placed by how far the award sat from the estimate.

Based on 14 lot pairs · CPV 7731, last 36 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

  • Below estimate 21%
  • Within ±2% 21%
  • Above estimate 57%

14 lot pairs · CPV 7731.

robust · n=14
i

Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.

We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.

This notice gives one total for several lots, so we show the percentage but do not turn it into pounds.

A benchmark, not a price to bid.

Awards in Scotland (CPV 7731, n=14 pairs) land a median 6% above. Applied to each lot’s own published value in the lot table below — the notice total (not published) is an envelope for 3 lots and is not converted.
Coverage and what to read with care
  • Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
  • Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
  • “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Open for tender
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Yes · October 2029
First published
25 Sept 2026, 09:39 BST
Last source update
25 Sept 2026, 09:39 BST
Award evaluation window
4 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT — …
Classification (CPV)
Grounds maintenance services
Delivery area
Scotland (UKM71)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077a1d
Contract terms
Electronic trading
e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment

Publisher note: Bidders can only bid on a maximum of 2 out of the 3 Lots NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=843340. The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx. Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems. A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363 Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/ A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows: Community Benefits Question shall be included within the ITT Quality Submission. (SC Ref:843340)

How to participate & submission route

Submit via Public Contracts Scotland
Submission portal named on this notice: Public Contracts Scotland · Who buys & how to bid on PCS
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free single registration for Scotland; PCS-Tender (Jaggaer) for full bidding

Tender documents are also served through a separate tool: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk ↗

Expression of interest (EOI)
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Tender submission deadline
4 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
—
Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Bid validity
90 days from the deadline
Bids opened
4 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

4 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Notice publishedearlier today
    25 Sept 2026, 09:39 BST
  2. Submission deadlinein 40 days
    4 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
  3. Bids openedin 40 days
    4 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 188 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Abertay Housing Association

Contracting authorityHousingHousing AssociationHousing and community amenities 147 Fintry Drive, Dundee, Scotland, DD4 9HE Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Dundee Sheriff CourtReview body DUNDEE
Process and specification contact points (1)
  • Graham + SibbaldProcess contact point Glasgow, Scotland

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice; the tender pack is on the portal.