Official UK procurement notice
Grave Digging & Related Services
Authority: City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Councils Bereavement Service have an in-house team who dig / construct graves and maintain the districts cemeteries but at times the Council require additional support with this service therefor requires suitably qualified and experienced Contractors to provide grave digging and additional works on an ad-hoc basis within the Councils 24 cemeteries which are located throughout the Bradford district Due to the diverse communities throughout Bradford, it is vital you have experience preparing graves for multi faith burials. The Contractor shall conform to all current statutory legislation / regulations for the type of works been delivered and adhere to the operational and working methods of the following as a minimum:
- Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management’s (I.C.C.M.) document ‘Code of Safe Working Practices for Cemeteries’.
- The Local Authorities Cemeteries Order 1977
- Health & Safety at Work Legislation
CPV: Grave-digging work · Grounds maintenance services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 4 suppliers · 2 bids received (0.5 per place) · 2 appointed
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedPublished value£600,000
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 (3)
- Quality: 30%
- SV: 10%
- price: 60%
Published award criteria (3)
- Quality: 30
- SV: 10
- Price: 60
- Price carries 60 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- “Grave Digging & Related Services” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 4 suppliers, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 13 Feb 2025, 17:46 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 May 2025, 14:32 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 17 Mar 2025 – …
- Authority reference
CBMDC-95924- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-019128- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04dee9Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 17 Mar 2025, 13:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 17 Mar 2025, 13:00 GMT
Timeline
17 Mar 2025 → 6 May 2025 · 3 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown17 Mar 2025, 13:00 GMT
- Bids opened17 Mar 2025, 13:00 GMT
- Notice published6 May 2025, 14:32 BST
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete6 May 2025, 14:32 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast2 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 2 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £600,000, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Grave Digging & Related Services
- Signed
- 1 May 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Grave Digging & Related Services
- Signed
- 1 May 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2bids · 2 electronic | 2 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Framework contractors & participating bidders
2 commercial parties on the notice- J L Albutt LimitedFramework contractor
- K Swain JoineryFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria