Official UK procurement notice
EMA Grounds Maintenance & Landscaping
Authority: MAG AIRPORT LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEast Midlands Airport (EMA) is looking for a strategic partner to undertake and provide grounds maintenance and landscaping services both in a landside and airside environment. The anticipated scope of works of the awarded contract will likely include the below:
- Grounds Maintenance
- Landscaping
- Litter picking
- Gritting
- Associated Services / Ad-Hoc requests (vegetation removal, tree surgery)
Please note, the primary scope of this tender is for EMA, however, MAG reserves the right to extend the scope of the contract to the other airports in the Group.
- How the procedure runs: This Tender will be multi-stage, following the below stages: Stage 1 - Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) Stage 2 - Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) Stage 3 - Best And Final Offers (BAFO) (Optional) Stage 4 - Contract Award More information about what is to be expected within or around each stage will be described in the relevant documents provided by the MAG Procurement team.
CPV: Grounds maintenance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£700,000
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).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Technical: 50%
- Commercial: 50%
Published award criteria (2)
- Technical: An assessment against Bidder's technical ability against a number of pre-prepared questions. This includes ESG & Sustainability considerations.
- Commercial: As assessment of Bidder's costs using a pre-prepared commercial response template.
- Price carries 50 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 5 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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 2 Sept 2025, 15:40 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Sept 2025, 17:03 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 20 Feb 2026
- Authority reference
ID7266- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-053248- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05926fFind a Tender
- How it runs
This Tender will be multi-stage, following the below stages:
Stage 1 - Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ)
Stage 2 - Invitation to Negotiate (ITN)
Stage 3 - Best And Final Offers (BAFO) (Optional)
Stage 4 - Contract Award
More information about what is to be expected within or around each stage will be described in the relevant documents provided by the MAG Procurement team.
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 26 Sept 2025, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadline
- 26 Sept 2025, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
If you are wishing to express an interest in this opportunity and wish to view the prequalification documents please firstly register your company details on the MAG portal, on the following URL, and select "Register your interest":
www.magairports.com/work-with-us/procure… ↗
Once you have registered please email [email protected] and advise that you have registered on the Portal. You will then be given access to the project documents via SAP Ariba.
Details on how to provide a response to MAG are detailed in the documentation.
Bidders must submit their Pre-Qualification Questionnaires via the SAP Ariba Portal.
If you are already registered on the SAP Ariba portal please contact Kieran Lalley who will confirm your registered status.
Upon the issue of this notice, all interested parties are to be aware the PQQ deadline is 03/10/2025. MAG will not be issuing an extension to this date due to any delay in registering or requesting access to the documents.
Timeline
2 Sept 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 5 dates- Tender notice published2 Sept 2025, 15:40 BST
- Latest notice published393 days ago23 Sept 2025, 17:03 BST
- Submission deadline390 days ago26 Sept 2025, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected by242 days ago20 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts204 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 2 Sept 2025- Tender notice published2 Sept 2025, 15:40 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published23 Sept 2025, 17:03 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender