Official UK procurement notice
HHS - Grounds Maintenance
Authority: Hundred Houses Society Ltd (Public body)·On behalf of: EASTERN PROCUREMENT LIMITED
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionHundred Houses Society is seeking to appoint a suitably experienced and qualified Supplier to provide grounds maintenance services across its housing stock and communal areas.
The services will include routine grass cutting, hedge and shrub maintenance, weed control, pruning, leaf clearance, litter picking, the general upkeep of external communal areas and associated works. The Supplier will also be required to undertake seasonal works and reactive grounds maintenance services where instructed.
CPV: Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services · Repair and maintenance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
Agricultural, forestry, horticultural services (CPV 77) in East of England, and who usually turns up
Hundred Houses Society Ltd has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. Published market evidence for the same work stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Agricultural, forestry, horticultural services (CPV 77) →
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 73% 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.
Here, local means registered in East of England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Across this market, 73% 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 deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 50 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 26% 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 bid15%
2–318%
4–631%
7+36%
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 estimate28%
Within ±2%52%
Above estimate21%
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 #1Published estimate£560k
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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 39 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid15%
2–318%
4–631%
7+36%
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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
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 23 Jul 2026, 16:57 BST
- Last source update
- 24 Jul 2026, 11:00 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-070152- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06d281Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
23 Jul 2026 → 1 Nov 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published90 days ago23 Jul 2026, 16:57 BST
- Market engagement68 days ago13 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
Eastern Procurement is undertaking preliminary market engagement on behalf of Hundred Houses Society ahead of the procurement of its upcoming Grounds Maintenance contract.
The purpose of this engagement is to invite input from the market to help us:
- Understand supplier capabilities and capacity
- Ensure the procurement reflects current market conditions
- Develop a contract that is fit for purpose and aligned with Hundred Houses Society's requirements
- Understand the systems, reporting and customer portal information available to clients
We encourage all suppliers with experience in delivering grounds maintenance and associated external estate services to engage with us at this early stage.
Interested organisations are invited to complete the Hundred Houses Grounds Maintenance Pre-Market Engagement Questionnaire. This will allow suppliers to express their interest and provide initial feedback to help shape the procurement.
Questionnaire link: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx ↗
The deadline for completing the questionnaire is 13th August 2026
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 11 days1 Nov 2026
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 23 Jul 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published23 Jul 2026, 16:57 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Jul 2026, 11:00 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Updated Microsoft Forms Link
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
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- EASTERN PROCUREMENT LIMITEDProcess contact pointProcuring entityProcurement Consortia Undertaking the Procurement process on their behalf
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