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County Wide Grounds Maintenance Services

Buyer: Buckinghamshire Council →

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BuyerBuckinghamshire Council
StatusClosed
Deadline12 May 2026
Value£19,800,000
Published17 Apr 2026

What is being bought

The Council invites you to submit a competitive tender to supply grounds maintenance, play area inspection and maintenance and Green Space services, as described in this tender pack. The successful Tenderer will have the expertise to, and the experience of, supplying and continually improving grounds maintenance, play area inspection and maintenance and Green Space services. The results of the services it will provide will have a significant influence on the attractiveness and effectiveness of public spaces and facilities. This Green Space Contract will take the form of a contract between Buckinghamshire Council and the appointed contractor. The contract is based predominantly on an Output Specification and contract arrangements are as set out in the tender documents. Tenderers are invited to confirm contract management arrangements in their responses to the Specification. The Council is seeking proposals for the provision of Green Spaces services by means of a public tender exercise, seeking expressions of interest from potential providers for the provision of Green Space Services covering grounds maintenance within the urban areas of Buckinghamshire, Play area inspection & maintenance throughout the Buckinghamshire area and other green space services for Buckinghamshire Council; including allotment and cemetery management, pitch bookings ,changing room management, and general green space enquiry and complaint handling . Contract summary: • Grass Maintenance • Hedge Maintenance • Shrub/Rose Bed Maintenance • Woodland Management and Maintenance • Hardstanding Maintenance and parking • Winter Weather Work -gritting and snow clearance • Litter Collection • Play Area Inspection and Maintenance • Changing Room Facilities • Exterior Furniture Maintenance • Bye-law Enforcement • Allotment Services Management • Pitch Bookings and Income Collection • Cemeteries provision including burials. • All other Non-Routine Works • Maintenance of the soft landscape within Parking areas The contract will be for an initial term of 5 years, commencing on 1st of January 2027 and ending on 31st December 2031. There will be an option for the Council to extend for a period, or series of periods, up to a maximum of 48 (forty-eight) additional months, making a potential total contract length of 9 years. The total contract spend for the full 9 years is estimated at between £18,000,000 and £19,800,000. This range is only an estimate, and the actual spend maybe higher or lower than these figures. The Council is of the opinion that TUPE will apply. The TUPE actuary report is currently not available but will be sent as soon as it is available to the bidders that have returned the confidentiality agreement. This document will be sent via the correspondence function. The contract will not be divided into Lots. The reason for not having Lots is that we have previously considered fractionalizing the tender into lots, however had moved away from this direction. The reason for this is that we have a business need for a single contract, with one main contact and oversight presiding over the whole, which would reduce our management time and pick up economies of scale throughout the supply chain. We have previously found that one point of contact overall with several area managers gives us a suitable and timely service response, with resilience provided through the area managers. The Invitation to tender documents for this opportunity are published on the Council's procurement portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/buckinghamshire-council If you wish to participate and have not yet registered, please ensure you do so via the procurement portal in order to access the documentation. Tenders must be returned via the Council's procurement portal. The tender return date is midday on Tuesday 12th May 2026. Tenders received after this time and date will not be accepted.

Delivery location

UKJ13, GB

Categories

Grounds maintenance services 77314000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
ValueAED 19,800,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Jan 2027 to 31 Dec 2031

Award criteria
Price (40%)
Quality (60%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Grounds maintenance servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 77. The category anchor is Grounds maintenance services (77314000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 779686 median · 24.1 average (310 of 968 with a bid count)4.2 average (322 of 968 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer1Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKJ1326 median · 6 average (1 of 2 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 2 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)37Not publishedNot publishedNot published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementYes
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-060a60
Latest release ID035305-2026
Latest release timestampFri Apr 17 2026 14:18:58 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/035305-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsCompetitive flexible procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-05-12T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-08-17T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailshttps://in-tendhost.co.uk/buckinghamshire-council
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£19,800,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source3
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
17 Apr 2026tenderUpdate035305-2026
9 Apr 2026tender032603-2026
10 Feb 2026planning011904-2026
21 Jan 2026planningUpdate005475-2026
20 Jan 2026planning005013-2026
20 Jan 2026planning005007-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (6 releases)
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10 Feb 2026 · 011904-2026 · planning
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20 Jan 2026 · 005007-2026 · planning
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