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Published 26 Oct 2026, 13:37 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Calvay Housing Association - Landscape Maintenance 2027 - 2030

Authority: Calvay Housing Association Ltd (Housing)

ServicesOpen procedure
Budget not disclosedValue not published
Submission deadline 8 Dec 202612:00 GMT · 42d 17h left
Contract term 3 yrsends 31 Mar 2030 · extension options published · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

3 Year Landscape Maintenance Services Contract for areas owned by Calvay Housing Association located in Barlanark, Glasgow.

  • Recurrence: NOVEMBER 2029

CPV: Grounds maintenance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1It is the Calvay Housing Associations' intention to enter into a contract with a main…Renewal 3 yrs

It is the Calvay 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.

Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2030 (3 yrs)
Delivery: Scotland · Barlanark, Glasgow
Extensions: Possible 1 + 1 year extension based on Contractor performance.Variant bids: not allowed

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
Quality: 30%Price: 70%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Quality: 30
  • Price: 70
Conditions of participation2
  • Condition of participation
    no text published
    Minimum: Bidders shall be required to have a minimum yearly turnover of 150,000.00 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
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 70 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 7 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.

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

How Calvay Housing Association Ltd buys Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731), and who usually turns up

Calvay Housing Association Ltd has little published record in this market. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerCalvay Housing Association Ltd · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 1 known-size awards · market: CPV 7731 · Scotland, n=54
1 of 194%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
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How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Scotland.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 1 known-location awards · market: CPV 7731 · Scotland, n=47
1 of 198%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 7731 · UK-wide, n=82
—45 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 45 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 0 of 2 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7731 · Scotland, n=39
0 of 215%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

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How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyerToo few to chart: 3 lots with bid counts, 5 needed · all categories
The market67 lots with bid counts · CPV 7731 · Scotland
22% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid22%
Market: 15 of 67 lots with published bid counts.
2–348%
Market: 32 of 67 lots with published bid counts.
4–622%
Market: 15 of 67 lots with published bid counts.
7+7%
Market: 5 of 67 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyerNo estimate-and-award pairs published
The market17 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7731 · Scotland
53% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate53%
Market: 9 of 17 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%12%
Market: 2 of 17 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate35%
Market: 6 of 17 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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What past awards tell you about each lot.

See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.

No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1It is the Calvay Housing Associations' intention to enter into a contract with a main…CPV 773136 monthsEstimate not published
Expected competition
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How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 67 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet22% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 67 similar lots
1 bid22%
15 of 67 similar past lots received 1 bid (22%).
2–348%
32 of 67 similar past lots received 2–3 (48%).
4–622%
15 of 67 similar past lots received 4–6 (22%).
7+7%
5 of 67 similar past lots received 7+ (7%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 2 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
John O'Conner Grounds Maintenance LtdEarlier contractCalvay Housing Association - Landscape Maintenance 2022 - 2024ended Mar 2024——Matched as the earlier contract

Who could compete for this lot?
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Who could compete for this lot?

Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.

None is confirmed as a bidder.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
  • Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

What this replaces
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

85% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (85% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

Calvay Housing Association - Landscape Maintenance 2022 - 2024 — held by John O'Conner Grounds Maintenance Ltd; the published contract ends 31 Mar 2024.

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 · NOVEMBER 2029
First published
26 Oct 2026, 13:37 GMT
Last source update
26 Oct 2026, 13:37 GMT
Award evaluation window
8 Dec 2026 – …
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-101028
Classification (CPV)
Grounds maintenance services
Delivery area
Scotland (UKM82)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-079028 Find a Tender
Contract terms
Electronic trading
e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
Performance terms

In respect to the bidders operatives salaries/wages - it shall be a strict condition for this contract / tender process that all applicants must adhere to paying their operatives, as a minimum, rates applicable to the REAL LIVING WAGE (SCOTLAND)(2026). Bidders must include within their tender a statement confirming that they meet this condition. Failure to do so will mean exclusion from the process.

Publisher note: TUPE transfer is applicable to this contract. Cost / operative information has been submitted by the incumbent contractor and can be found within the tender documentation. 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=846494. 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 - Shall be equatable to 3% of the cost of the awarded contract. (SC Ref:846494)

How to participate & submission route

Official notice 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 ↗

Requests to participate (first stage)
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Tender submission deadline
8 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
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Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Bid validity
90 days from the deadline
Bids opened
8 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

26 Oct 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Notice publishedearlier today
    26 Oct 2026, 13:37 GMT
  2. Today
    26 Oct 2026
  3. Submission deadlinein 43 days
    8 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
  4. Bids openedin 43 days
    8 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 156 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

Calvay Housing Association

Contracting authorityHousingHousing AssociationHousing and community amenities The Calvay Centre, 16 Calvay Road, Barlanark, Glasgow, Scotland, G33 4REContact name, email Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Glasgow Sheriff CourtReview body Glasgow
Process and specification contact points (1)
  • Graham + SibbaldProcess contact point Glasgow, ScotlandContact name, email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

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