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CPU 8586 Grounds Maintenance Operated Plant Framework
Authority: Nottingham City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNottingham City Council requires a Framework Agreement for the provision of specialist rural services to support Grounds Maintenance and Vegetation Management in Rural Highways Environments within the boundaries of Nottingham City Council and any future expanded highway area arising from Local Government Reorganisation. Services may include the provision of tractor operators and associated plant and equipment, including agricultural tractors, towable mowers, out-front mowers, flail arms, hedge cutters, embankment flail mowers, remote-controlled slope mowers, and tractor and trailer combinations, to support Highway-related projects.
The Supplier shall provide plant, attachments and operators in accordance with this Contract Specification, the Framework Agreement, the Pricing Schedule, any applicable Call-Off Contract documentation, any site-specific requirements issued by the Authority, and Nottingham City Council's Generic Employers Work Information document and associated Appendices insofar as its requirements are relevant to the activities being undertaken:
• Highway verge, embankment and rural vegetation management.
• Grass cutting, flailing, hedge cutting and seasonal vegetation works.
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• Transport and movement of plant where required.
• Specialist plant support for constrained or complex highway environments.
Subject to suitability, the Council is seeking to appoint up to 3 Contractors to this framework.
The overall framework will have an estimated total value of £400,000 (VAT exclusive)
The duration of the Framework is expected to be for up to 4 years at the Authority's discretion
- The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 2 Sept 2030, 23:59 BST.
CPV: Grounds maintenance services · Hire of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment with operator · Tree pruning and hedge trimming · Tree-maintenance services · Weed-clearance services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Type
- Closed framework
- Call-offs
- call-offs are awarded directly to appointed suppliers, without further competition
- Places
- up to 3 suppliers
- Framework period
- 4 yrs from 21 Dec 2026
Published description of the framework
Call-offs from the Framework will be made by Direct Award according to the following criteria: The Employer will assemble a basket of items required to deliver the works, and apply the rates provided by each Contractor to the basket in order to determine the Price for each Contractor. The contract will be offered first to the Contractor whose basket is best priced. The Employer will telephone the Contractor selected as first choice for the direct award in accordance with the pricing schedule, to make them aware that a call-off is required and to detail the requirement. The Contractor will confirm their willingness to undertake the work. If this is not possible immediately, due to the specifics of the requirement, the Contractor will email the Employer within 24 hours, either confirming that they will be undertaking the work, or declining so to do. Should the first-choice supplier be unable or unwilling to undertake the work, the second-choice supplier will be approached in a similar fashion, and so forth. The Employer shall email the selected Contractor with the proposal for the works and the appropriate form of contract, priced in accordance with the Framework Pricing Schedule. The Contractor will return the completed form of contract by email to the Employer within 24 hours, whereupon the Employer will arrange for contract completion.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1Published value£400,000
- Value
- £400,000 exc. VAT · £480,000 inc. VAT
What it takes to win
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morePublished sub-criteria (6)
- Quality — 20
- Quality — 20
- Price — 70
- Price — 70
- Social Value — 10
- Social Value — 10
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Nottingham City Council buys Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731) — and who usually turns up
Nottingham City Council’s own published record, next to the East Midlands market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared.
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 frameworks and DPS only — direct awards report one bid by definition and are left out. Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Nottingham City Council
framework/DPS notices in 36 months: 1 in CPV 7731 · 1 in division 77 · 106 in all categories (19 direct)
East Midlands · Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731)
framework/DPS notices delivered in East Midlands in 36 months: 20 in CPV 7731 (20 contested) · 48 in division 77 (48 contested)
robust · n=36 Awards in Nottingham City Council (all categories, n=36 pairs) land a median at estimate: on this notice’s £400,000 that is about £400,000. Context for a bid, not a recommended price.
Method and what to read with care
- Two columns, no blending. The authority column walks its own record only: notices in the 4-digit class, then the 2-digit division, then all categories (36 months, per lot, contested only), and as a last resort its 24-month row across all categories (per notice, every route). The market column is the notice’s primary delivery ITL1 × the same class, then division (36 months). Nothing is filled from the UK-wide class; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable.
- Per lot, contested only. Find a Tender publishes bid counts per lot; a seven-lot tender is seven contests. Procedures awarded without competition (limited / direct) are excluded from bids, price pairs and decision days — they report one bid by definition. Frameworks and DPS are a separate population from contracts (6–7 bids per lot against 2–4) and only the notice’s own kind is shown.
- 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). Award-vs-estimate pairs need a lot estimate, one active award on the lot, one canonical supplier and a gap under 60 %; about 30 % of pairs are exact matches (the buyer published the award at the estimate). n is on every figure; below 3 the tile is muted, never hidden.
- Pounds. The expected award applies the authority’s median movement (or the region’s, when the authority has fewer than 3 pairs) to this notice’s estimate; the middle half uses the region’s quartiles. A multi-lot notice publishes an envelope, so the movement is applied per lot, never to the total. A benchmark, not a recommended price.
- “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 admission
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · next expected 2 Sept 2030
- First published
- 18 Sept 2026, 10:07 BST
- Last source update
- 18 Sept 2026, 10:07 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 21 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Authority reference
CPU 8586- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077511Find a Tender
- Risks
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire may be subject to Local Government Reorganisation (LGR), a national programme led by central government to restructure two-tier authorities into single unitary councils. This process involves Nottingham City Council, Nottinghamshire County Council, the district/borough councils, and the more…
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, and may lead to changes in governance, boundaries and service delivery arrangements that could affect this contract. Tenderers should therefore note that organisational and contractual arrangements may need to adapt in line with any LGR implementation
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Apply via portal- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Appointment period ends
- 30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
5 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today18 Sept 2026, 10:07 BST
- Clarification questions byin 35 days23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsin 42 days · period end, not a bid countdown30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 94 days21 Dec 2026, 00:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 95 days21 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
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 published18 Sept 2026, 10:07 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Technical specifications
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
- Bidding documents and specifications
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender