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Hole Farm Cafe Concession

Buyer: Forestry Commission →

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BuyerForestry Commission
StatusClosed
Deadline8 Oct 2025
Value£250,000
Published8 Sept 2025

What is being bought

Forestry England are tendering for a Cafe concession at the newly established Hole Farm Woodland in Brentwood, Essex.

Delivery location

UKH, GB

Categories

Cafeteria services 55330000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£250,000
Contract periodFrom 5 Jan 2026 to 4 Jan 2036
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Cafeteria servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 55. The category anchor is Cafeteria services (55330000); 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 551,7464 median · 14.4 average (653 of 1,746 with a bid count)1.8 average (673 of 1,746 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer11Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKH563 median · 4.3 average (17 of 56 with a bid count)1 average (18 of 56 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)7312 median · 12 average (1 of 73 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 73 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 regimeconcession
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-0595ed
Latest release ID054701-2025
Latest release timestampMon Sep 08 2025 13:48:26 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/054701-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-10-08T11:00:00Z
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailshttps://app.panacea-software.com/ForestryCommission/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2FForestryCommission%2F
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£250,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source1
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
8 Sept 2025tender054701-2025

All source data

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

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
8 Sept 2025 · 054701-2025 · tender
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