Official UK procurement notice
Grounds Maintenance · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Northern Ireland Housing Executive (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe contract will cover the delivery of planned and response grounds maintenance services, including (but not limited to) formal and informal grass cutting and removal of arisings; weed and moss control; maintenance of litter-free rough grass, planted woodland, and hard/landscaped areas; cutting of wildflower areas; litter lifting; cleaning of river beds and culverts (including grills); hedge trimming; seasonal bedding and works to herbaceous borders; and inspections and reporting of defects such as holes, ruts and tracks.
The contract will also include reactive and response works, including the planting of new and replacement trees, shrubs, hedges and bulbs; trimming and pruning of shrub beds; the design of landscape features; the design, planting, establishment and maintenance of bedding schemes; bonfire removal and post-burn clearance; associated reinstatement works; and any other works as instructed by the Client.
In addition, the contract will include associated inspection, survey and design services across NIHE properties.
The appointed contractor(s) will be responsible for delivering a fully managed service, including the provision of labour, materials, supervision, customer liaison, and full compliance with all statutory and health and safety requirements.
The contract is expected to be segmented into 6 lots.
The content of this notice is indicative only and subject to change.
CPV: Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services · Grassing services · Grounds maintenance services · Hedge trimming · Horticultural services · Planting and maintenance services of green areas · Seeding services · Tree pruning · Tree pruning and hedge trimming · Weed-clearance services · Weed-killing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Northern Ireland Housing Executive buys Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731), and who usually turns up
Northern Ireland Housing Executive’s published record next to the market for the same work. 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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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 Northern Ireland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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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 42 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 buyer’s share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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 bid9% / 4%
2–321% / 21%
4–637% / 42%
7+33% / 33%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate34% / 13%
Within ±2%20% / 80%
Above estimate47% / 7%
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 77Published estimate£36m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 77. The comparison uses that group.
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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. The bar shows 47 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid15%
2–328%
4–630%
7+28%
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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.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
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.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- 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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- 3 Jul 2026, 08:45 BST
- Last source update
- 3 Jul 2026, 08:53 BST
- Authority reference
P1229- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-062566- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
3 Jul 2026 → 1 Nov 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published114 days ago3 Jul 2026, 08:45 BST
- Market engagement83 days ago3 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
The Northern Ireland Housing Executive intends to host a market engagement event in advance of an upcoming procurement competition for the provision of Grounds Maintenance Services.
The event will be held in person at Twickenham House, Ballymena, 59-71 Mount Street Ballymena BT43 6BP, on Monday 3rd August 2026. The event will take place in the Ground Floor Conference Room and is expected to last from approximately 10am until 12noon.
Please report to reception upon arrival where a member of the NIHE market engagement team will meet attendees and escort them to and from the conference room.
Attendees are requested to arrive between 09:15 and 09:45.
The event is expected to be interactive with attendees encouraged to provide feedback and participate in Q&A. NIHE also expects to make use of Mentimeter (Menti).
SUPPLIERS WISHING TO ATTEND MUST EXPRESS THEIR INTEREST NO LATER THAN 15:00 ON MONDAY 27TH JULY 2026 BY EMAILING [email protected].
Please mark your email for the attention of Martin McLaughlin; please use the following subject line: "P1229 Grounds Maintenance EoI [YOUR ORGANISATION NAME]". Please include the name, job title, and email address for each proposed attendee.
Due to room capacity restrictions, attendance is limited to two representatives per organisation. Attendees may be required to sign the visitors' register on arrival. An attendance record may also be maintained by a member of the market engagement team.
Please note that parking is not available on site. Smoking and vaping are not permitted on or in NIHE premises.
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 75 days8 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 371 days1 Nov 2027
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 3 Jul 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published3 Jul 2026, 08:45 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published3 Jul 2026, 08:53 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
correction of typo
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- 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 copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender