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BuyerAskham Bryan College
StatusClosed
Deadline15 Aug 2025
Value£415,000
Published12 Aug 2025

What is being bought

Askham Bryan College is a specialist land-based college, designated within the Further Education sector, requiring Farm Management Services, at its farm located at the York campus. As an academic institution, all its resources, including the farm, exist to assist in the delivery of high quality learning, teaching and research. The college farm is a commercial enterprise, managed to support a realistic working environment for students to experience and acquire an appropriate range of industrially relevant skills. The farm comprises approximately 240 ha of land and buildings which include a dairy unit comprising of a 20:20 rapid exit parlour, a robotic milking unit, cubicle housing and associated handling areas and infrastructure, a purpose-built calf rearing and beef finishing unit, forage clamps, waste handling facilities and a 22kWh micro anaerobic digester. The proposed contract includes management of the Farming Business specifically the management of the dairy, beef and sheep enterprises and associated forage and arable crop production, working in conjunction with the curriculum provision of agricultural education. The College require the supplier to have experience in such areas as well as in the management of student training requirements, to provide a high quality learning experience.

Delivery location

UK, GB

Categories

Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products 03000000Agricultural services 77100000Business and management consultancy and related services 79400000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£415,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Dec 2025 to 30 Nov 2028

Award criteria
Quality (70%)
Price (30%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products, Agricultural services, Business and management consultancy and related servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 03. The category anchor is Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products (03000000); 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 032047 median · 25.6 average (64 of 204 with a bid count)6.5 average (68 of 204 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK4329.5 median · 38.8 average (12 of 43 with a bid count)14.8 average (12 of 43 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)1910 median · 10 average (2 of 19 with a bid count)2.5 average (2 of 19 with named award suppliers)Not 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-0510dc
Latest release ID048021-2025
Latest release timestampTue Aug 12 2025 12:05:10 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/048021-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsCompetitive flexible procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadline2025-08-15T23:59:00+01:00
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2025-10-17T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailshttps://suppliers.multiquote.com Reference: CA16277
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£415,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
12 Aug 2025tenderUpdate048021-2025
12 Aug 2025tender048015-2025
30 Jul 2025planning044502-2025
12 May 2025planning020459-2025

All source data

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

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30 Jul 2025 · 044502-2025 · planning
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12 May 2025 · 020459-2025 · planning
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