Official UK procurement notice
Contract for Machine Bulb Planting
Authority: City & County of Swansea (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSwansea Council intends to undertake pre-market engagement for the machine planting of various bulb mixes at locations across Swansea. The mixes must provide long flowering periods, strong visual displays and benefits for bees, butterflies and other pollinators. The butterfly and bee mixes should flower from February to July, with planting densities of approximately 120 bulbs per m² and 450 bulbs per m² respectively. The native mix should flower from February to May and be planted at approximately 300 bulbs per m². The total planting areas are 694 m² for the butterfly mix, 405 m² for the bee mix and 15 m² for the native mix.
Planting will take place on grass verges and other grassed areas throughout Swansea.
CPV: Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services · Horticultural services · Planting and maintenance services of green areas
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Lot 1Planned
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 28 Sept 2026, 16:40 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Sept 2026, 16:40 BST
- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077bd7
How it was run
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Planning notice publishedearlier today28 Sept 2026, 16:40 BST
- Market engagementin 18 days16 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
This Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) seeks those organisations that may be interested in providing this service . The exercise will be used to understand the markets capacity and technical ability. Swansea Council has created an Market Engagement Questionnaire (MEQ) which will be used to more…
understand the markets capacity and technical ability. The Market Engagement Questionnaire (MEQ) can be accessed by emailing [email protected]. Please submit your completed MEQ by no later than 12:00 noon on the 16th October 2026 by email to [email protected]. Participation in this engagement exercise is not a mandatory requirement for participating in any potential future procurement; however, responses received will assist to inform Swansea Council as to the level of interest from the market and will be used to evidence a decision as to how to undertake a competitive procurement. This notice is not a call for competition. Swansea Council reserves the right to withdraw from undertaking a tender process at any point. - Tender notice expectedin 30 days28 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 48 days16 Nov 2026, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 Sept 2026, 16:40 BSTUK2
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender