Official UK procurement notice
Countryside Management Operations for the London Borough of Barnet
Authority: London Borough of Barnet (Local council)
What is being bought6 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThe London Borough of Barnet (LBB, the council) wishes to commission the Countryside Management Operations service.
The London Borough of Barnet (the ‘Authority’) is seeking to appoint a sole service provider (the ‘Provider’) to deliver Countryside Management Operation services per Lot on its behalf for a three-year period with the option to extend for one year subject to budget constraints and performance. A sole Lot service provider may be the provider to one or more Lots.
The works and services for Countryside Management Operations will be divided into six Lot areas as listed below:
· Lot 1: Access Maintenance (Bridleways)
· Lot 2: Meadow Management
· Lot 3: Rural Verges Grass Cutting
· Lot 4: Hedge Maintenance including Rural (Flail Cut)
· Lot 5: Ditch, Culvert Maintenance, Land Drainage and Revetment
· Lot 6: Access Maintenance (Rural Path Maintenance)
The key periods of work will be in the period between the months of May and August. There may be other works associated with Countryside Management Operations which will be on an Ad hoc basis and subject to quotations.
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CPV: Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services
Lots and requirements (6)Procurement structure
6 lots · all with a published value (£3,620,000 together) · evaluation weights differ by lotLot #1Lot 1: Access Maintenance (Bridleways):RenewalPublished value£1,080,000
- Value
- £1,080,000 exc. VAT · £1,296,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- Budget above included 12 month extension 3+1
Award criteria (2)
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Price LOT 1 — 60%
- Quality incl Social Value LOT 1 — 40%
Published award criteria (2)
- Price LOT 1 — price
- Quality incl Social Value LOT 1 — Quality
Lot #2Lot 2: Meadow Management:RenewalPublished value£640,000
- Value
- £640,000 exc. VAT · £768,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- 12 months. 3+1
Award criteria (2)
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Qual — 40%
- Price Lot2 — 60%
Published award criteria (2)
- Price Lot2 — Price
Lot #3Lot 3: Rural Verges and Grass Cutting:RenewalPublished value£80,000
- Value
- £80,000 exc. VAT · £96,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- 12 Months (total contract 3+1)
Award criteria (2)
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Price Lot 3 — 60%
- Quality Lot 3 — 40%
Published award criteria (2)
- Price Lot 3 — Price
- Quality Lot 3 — Quality
Lot #4Lot 4: Hedge Maintenance including Rural (Flail Cut)RenewalPublished value£300,000
- Value
- £300,000 exc. VAT · £360,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- 12 months extension (3 + 1 years total)
Award criteria (2)
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Lot 4 Price — 60%
- Lot 4 Quality incl Social Value — 40%
Published award criteria (2)
- Lot 4 Price — Price
- Lot 4 Quality incl Social Value — Quality
Lot #5Lot 5: Ditch, Culvert Maintenance, Land Drainage and Revetment:RenewalPublished value£440,000
- Value
- £440,000 exc. VAT · £528,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- 12 months (3 + 1 total)
Award criteria (2)
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Price Lot 5 — 60%
- Quality Lot 5 incl social vale — 40%
Published award criteria (2)
- Price Lot 5 — Price
- Quality Lot 5 incl social vale — Quality
Lot #6Lot 6: Access Maintenance (Rural Path Maintenance):RenewalPublished value£1,080,000
- Value
- £1,080,000 exc. VAT · £1,296,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- 12 Months ( 3 + 1 Years) total length of contract
Award criteria (2)
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Quality Lot 6 — 40%
- Price Lot 6 — 60%
Published award criteria (2)
- Price Lot 6 — Price
- Quality Lot 6 — Quality
What it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
Lots publish different evaluation splits — there is no single procedure weighting.
| Lot | Price | Social value | Quality | Split |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Lot 1: Access Maintenance (Bridleways): | 60% | 40% | — | |
| 2 · Lot 2: Meadow Management: | 60% | — | 40% | |
| 3 · Lot 3: Rural Verges and Grass Cutting: | 100% | — | — | |
| 4 · Lot 4: Hedge Maintenance including Rural (Flail Cut) | 60% | 40% | — | |
| 5 · Lot 5: Ditch, Culvert Maintenance, Land Drainage and Revetment: | 60% | 40% | — | |
| 6 · Lot 6: Access Maintenance (Rural Path Maintenance): | 60% | — | 40% |
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How London Borough of Barnet buys Agricultural, forestry, horticultural services (CPV 77) — and who usually turns up
London Borough of Barnet’s own published record, next to the Greater London market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Agricultural, forestry, horticultural services (CPV 77) →
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.
London Borough of Barnet
contract notices in 36 months: 1 in division 77 · 49 in all categories (3 without competition · 13 route not published)
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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 buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 16 lots. 15 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 1 from older notices (bids received, middle 4).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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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 buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 16 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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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 buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 13 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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 buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 10 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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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 this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 65 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 36 notices.
Greater London · Agricultural, forestry, horticultural services (CPV 77)
contract notices delivered in Greater London in 36 months: 169 in division 77 (149 competed, 14 route not published)
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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 industry (CPV 77), last 36 months: 80 lots. 40 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 6) and 40 from older notices (bids received, middle 5).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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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 industry (CPV 77), last 36 months: 80 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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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 industry (CPV 77), last 36 months: 38 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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 industry (CPV 77), last 36 months: 30 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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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 industry (CPV 77), last 36 months: 45 lots.
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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 industry (CPV 77), last 36 months: 148 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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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.
Who you are likely to meet i
Who you may be up against.
Suppliers on this buyer’s earlier similar contracts, and suppliers whose record fits this tender.
A guess from the record. Buyers do not publish who is bidding.
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Who you may be up against.
Suppliers on this buyer’s earlier similar contracts, and suppliers whose record fits this tender.
A guess from the record. Buyers do not publish who is bidding.
Suppliers on this authority’s earlier similar contracts, then suppliers with a matching track record — from published award history, not a bid list
By lot · 6 lots i
Likely bidders for each lot.
For each lot: the previous winner, suppliers with history on this lot, and suppliers strong in this category.
A guess from the record, not a bidder list.
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Likely bidders for each lot.
For each lot: the previous winner, suppliers with history on this lot, and suppliers strong in this category.
A guess from the record, not a bidder list.
| Lot | Awarded / admitted | Likely suppliers |
|---|---|---|
Lot 1: Access Maintenance (Bridleways):£1,080,000 · CPV 77000000 · expect ≈ £1.1m (at estimate, London Borough of Barnet) Lot 6: Access Maintenance (Rural Path Maintenance):£1,080,000 · CPV 77000000 · expect ≈ £1.1m (at estimate, London Borough of Barnet) CPV market ranking when lot-specific history is thin. | — |
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Lot 2: Meadow Management:£640,000 · CPV 77000000 · expect ≈ £640k (at estimate, London Borough of Barnet) CPV market ranking when lot-specific history is thin. | — |
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Lot 3: Rural Verges and Grass Cutting:£80,000 · CPV 77000000 · expect ≈ £80k (at estimate, London Borough of Barnet) CPV market ranking when lot-specific history is thin. | — |
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Lot 4: Hedge Maintenance including Rural (Flail Cut)£300,000 · CPV 77000000 · expect ≈ £300k (at estimate, London Borough of Barnet) Lot 5: Ditch, Culvert Maintenance, Land Drainage and Revetment:£440,000 · CPV 77000000 · expect ≈ £440k (at estimate, London Borough of Barnet) CPV market ranking when lot-specific history is thin. | — |
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Ranked by CPV market fit, scale and buyer history — historical public-sector wins, not the published bidder list or a predicted field. Lots with the same shortlist are grouped.
Suppliers with a similar track record — and how they price i
Suppliers with a similar track record, and how they price.
Suppliers matched on wins in this category, history with this buyer, location and size. Their award vs estimate is from their own past wins.
A guess from the record, not a bidder list.
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Suppliers with a similar track record, and how they price.
Suppliers matched on wins in this category, history with this buyer, location and size. Their award vs estimate is from their own past wins.
A guess from the record, not a bidder list.
| Supplier | Evidence | Last award | Their award vs estimate | Relevance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glendale Countryside Ltd Large | 6 class wins | this month | at estimate n=11 | 51% |
| idverde Limited Large | 9 class wins | this month | at estimate n=9 | 45% |
| DIRECT ENVIRO SERVICES LIMITED SME | 2 class wins | 53 months ago | no comparable pairs | 45% |
| SAGE ENVIRO LTD SME | 2 class wins | 53 months ago | no comparable pairs | 45% |
| Ace Arboriculture SME | 3 class wins | 66 months ago | no comparable pairs | 44% |
Matched by the nightly worker on class wins, buyer history, delivery geography, scale and notice text; relevance is a 0–100% heuristic score, not a probability of bidding. “Their award vs estimate” is that supplier’s median on its own comparable single-supplier wins. Nobody here is known to be bidding.
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- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 22 Sept 2026, 14:15 BST
- Last source update
- 22 Sept 2026, 14:15 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 15 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Authority reference
1008543093- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0777a1Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Delta eSourcing- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 4 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 22 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
5 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today22 Sept 2026, 14:15 BST
- Clarification questions byin 30 days22 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 42 days4 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 84 days15 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 190 days1 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
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published22 Sept 2026, 14:15 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender