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Grounds Maintenance Contract

Buyer: Ampthill Town Council →

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BuyerAmpthill Town Council
StatusClosed
Deadline2 Dec 2025
Value£1,400,000
Published19 Nov 2025

What is being bought

Ampthill Town Council (The Council) is inviting tender submissions for this service under its public procurement obligations. The grounds maintenance services will focus primarily on Ampthill Great Park, and include other sites such as: Ampthill Cemetery, 2 allotment sites, 4 areas of public open space, a market area and car park. Full details provided within the specification document and Annex 1.

Categories

Parks maintenance services 77313000Grounds maintenance services 77314000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£1,400,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2026 to 31 Mar 2031
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Price (60%)
Quality — Organisation & Management - 7 points Employee Terms & Conditions / Retention - 15 points Transport & Equipment - 11 points Service Delivery - 17 points Mobilisation & Action Plan - 10 points (40%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Parks maintenance services, Grounds maintenance servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 77. The category anchor is Parks maintenance services (77313000); 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 771,5675 median · 22 average (640 of 1,567 with a bid count)3.9 average (680 of 1,567 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)1126 median · 6 average (1 of 112 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 112 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-05621f
Latest release ID075283-2025
Latest release timestampWed Nov 19 2025 14:41:34 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/075283-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-12-02T12:00:00Z
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2025-11-18T16:00:00Z
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2025-12-19T23:59:59Z
Submission method detailshttps://www.ampthill-tc.gov.uk/news Tender returns: tenders@ampthill-tc.gov.uk
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£1,400,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source4
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
19 Nov 2025tenderUpdate075283-2025
3 Nov 2025tender070606-2025
29 Jul 2025planningUpdate044038-2025
18 Jul 2025planning041300-2025

All source data

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

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Complete JSON history (4 releases)
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29 Jul 2025 · 044038-2025 · planningUpdate
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18 Jul 2025 · 041300-2025 · planning
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