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Buyer: THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER →

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BuyerTHE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER
StatusClosed
Deadline24 Jun 2025
Value£500,000
Published23 May 2025

What is being bought

Grounds Maintenance Services and indoor plants: The University is seeking establish a single contract to manage its Grounds Maintenance and internal/external plant services across all University Campuses. The new contract will aim to maintain the standard of existing services and improve on them, where possible. In addition, there will be an aim to: •Develop and maintain a plant asset list across all sites? •Improve reporting and KPI management •Seek efficiencies and cost savings within the contract, where possible.

Delivery location

UKI, GB

Categories

Grounds maintenance services 77314000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£500,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Nov 2025 to 31 Oct 2028
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Delivery Methodology — Supplier approach to Delivery Methodology Details within tender document (25%)
Resources and Resource Management — Resources and Resource Management Details within tender document (5%)
Mobilisation — Mobilisation plans and approach Details within tender document (10%)
Reporting, KPIs and SLAs — Reporting, KPI's and SLAs Details within tender document (5%)
Added Value, Innovation and Cost saving — Supplier approach to Added Value, Innovation and Cost saving Details within tender document (10%)
Social Value, Climate Emergency and Sustainability — Supplier approach to Social Value, Climate Emergency and Sustainability Details within tender document (5%)
Pricing Proposal — Breakdown of Pricing for the contract (30%)
Commercial Approach — Commercial Approach to Additional Iems (5%)
Contract — Proposed Contractual documents (5%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Grounds maintenance servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 77. The category anchor is Grounds maintenance services (77314000); 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 772,2126 median · 22.1 average (976 of 2,212 with a bid count)4.1 average (1,036 of 2,212 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKI1389 median · 48.8 average (33 of 138 with a bid count)4.9 average (36 of 138 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)1999 median · 9.3 average (4 of 199 with a bid count)2.3 average (4 of 199 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 requirementNot published
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

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleLow value contract and engagement predominantly carried our before Procurement Act 2023 came into force
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-0524c0
Latest release ID027033-2025
Latest release timestampFri May 23 2025 16:04:20 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027033-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsCompetitive flexible procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-06-24T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2025-06-23T12:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2025-07-31T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailshttps://procontract.due-north.com
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£500,000
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
23 May 2025tender027033-2025

All source data

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