Official UK procurement notice
Grounds Maintenance Contract 2027-2030
Authority: Markfield Parish Council (Local council)
Markfield Parish Council invites tenders from suitably qualified and experienced contractors for the provision of grounds maintenance services across the parish of Markfield, Leicestershire. The contract covers the maintenance of Council grounds, open spaces and recreational areas, in accordance with the Grounds Maintenance Specification, Schedule of Works and accompanying site maps. The contract will commence on 1 April 2027 and end on 31 March 2030, with the option for the Council to extend the contract for up to two additional periods of 12 months each. Completed tenders must be submitted by post or hand delivery in a sealed envelope, clearly marked PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL - GROUNDS MAINTENANCE TENDER 2027-2030, addressed to:
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionMarkfield Parish Council invites tenders from suitably qualified and experienced contractors for the provision of grounds maintenance services across the parish of Markfield, Leicestershire.
The contract covers the maintenance of Council grounds, open spaces and recreational areas, in accordance with the Grounds Maintenance Specification, Schedule of Works and accompanying site maps.
The contract will commence on 1 April 2027 and end on 31 March 2030, with the option for the Council to extend the contract for up to two additional periods of 12 months each.
The full tender documentation includes the Contract Conditions, Specification and Schedule of Works, site maps, Tender Submission Instructions and Evaluation Criteria, and Tender Return Form and Pricing Schedule.
Tenders will be evaluated on the basis of 60% price and 40% quality, subject to mandatory compliance requirements.
Submission deadline: Friday 18 December 2026 at 12 noon.
Completed tenders must be submitted by post or hand delivery in a sealed envelope, clearly marked PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL - GROUNDS MAINTENANCE TENDER 2027-2030, addressed to:
Parish Clerk
Markfield Parish Council
100 Main Street
Markfield
Leicestershire
LE67 9UU
For enquiries regarding the tender, please contact [email protected].
CPV: Grounds maintenance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£105,500
- Condition of participation
Contractors must demonstrate the experience, resources and competence necessary to deliver the full grounds maintenance specification.
Requirements include:
Public liability insurance of at least £10 million, or confirmation that this will be in place before commencement.
Appropriate health and safety arrangements, including risk assessments and method statements.
Relevant training, qualifications and licences for the services.
Valid waste carrier registration where legally required.
Sufficient staffing, equipment and resources to deliver the full specification from 1 April 2027.
Tenderers must also comply with the mandatory submission requirements. Full details are provided in the tender documentation.
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 (5)
- Relevant experience and track record: 10%
- Staffing, equipment and resources: 10%
- Proposed approach to service delivery: 10%
- Price: 60%
- Health, safety and environmental practices: 10%
Published award criteria (5)
- Price: Evaluation of the total tendered price for delivery of the full grounds maintenance specification over the initial three-year contract period, in accordance with the pricing schedule and tender evaluation methodology.
- Relevant experience and track record: Assessment of relevant grounds maintenance experience, previous contracts and demonstrated ability to deliver comparable services.
- Staffing, equipment and resources: Assessment of staffing arrangements, equipment, resources and capacity to deliver the full contract specification.
- Proposed approach to service delivery: Assessment of the proposed methodology, work scheduling, quality control and arrangements for delivering the specified services.
- Health, safety and environmental practices: Assessment of health and safety arrangements, risk management and environmentally responsible working practices.
- Condition of participation
Contractors must demonstrate the experience, resources and competence necessary to deliver the full grounds maintenance specification.
Requirements include:
Public liability insurance of at least £10 million, or confirmation that this will be in place before commencement.
Appropriate health and safety arrangements, including risk assessments and method statements.
Relevant training, qualifications and licences for the services.
Valid waste carrier registration where legally required.
Sufficient staffing, equipment and resources to deliver the full specification from 1 April 2027.
Tenderers must also comply with the mandatory submission requirements. Full details are provided in the tender documentation.
- 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.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £70,269 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Markfield Parish Council buys Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731), and who usually turns up
Markfield Parish Council has little published record in this market. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Across this market, small firms won 90% of awards with a known supplier size.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in East Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Across this market, 29% of winners were registered in the delivery region.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 35 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Across this market, at least 38% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid13%
2–326%
4–619%
7+42%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Awards below, close to or above the estimate, per lot. The buyer side adds below-threshold contracts with a pre-award estimate; an award inside a published range counts as close.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate77%
Within ±2%5%
Above estimate18%
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 7731Published estimate£106k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid2%
2–314%
4–622%
7+61%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
Based on 8 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£88k–£106k
Estimate£106k
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £146m32 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 18 live · £107m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=17 | |
idverde LtdLarge | £65m40 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago | 18 live · £49m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=15 |
T. H. White LimitedLarge | £1.5m10 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 2 live · £163k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 37% below n=1 |
PGSD LimitedSME | £1.7m5 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 2 live · £950k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=3 |
| £955k1 award in 36m · last 17 months ago | 1 live · £955k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 41% below n=1 |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder appears in live search, the Retender Radar, contract pages, organisation counts, the earlier contracts and past suppliers on a tender's competition panel, the buyer's decision figure and its award against estimate; the other analytical figures are built from Find a Tender notices.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 11 Nov 2026, 23:13 GMT
- Last source update
- 11 Nov 2026, 23:13 GMT
- Authority reference
MPC-GM-2027-2030- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-107347- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07ba1eFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via portal- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 18 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Not allowed
Completed tenders, including the signed Tender Return Form and all required supporting information, must be submitted by post or hand delivery in a sealed envelope clearly marked:
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL - GROUNDS MAINTENANCE TENDER 2027-2030
Addressed to:
Parish Clerk
Markfield Parish Council
100 Main Street
Markfield
Leicestershire
LE67 9UU
Closing deadline: 12 noon on Friday 18 December 2026.
Electronic tender submissions will not be accepted.
Full tender documentation, including the submission instructions, is available at:
markfieldparishcouncil.gov.uk/tenders-contracts ↗
For clarification enquiries, please contact [email protected] or telephone 01530 245933.
Timeline
11 Nov 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates- Tender notice published1h ago11 Nov 2026, 23:13 GMT
- Today12 Nov 2026
- Submission deadlinein 36 days18 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 139 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published11 Nov 2026, 23:13 GMTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications Complete tender documentation for Markfield Parish Council's Grounds Maintenance Contract 2027-2030, including the Invitation to Tender, Tender Submission Instructions and Evaluation Criteria, Contract Specification and Site Maps, and Tender Return Form is available to download o…
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender