Official UK procurement notice
Landscape Maintenance at The Royal Parks
Authority: The Royal Parks Ltd (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Royal Parks is currently preparing for the renewal of the Grounds Maintenance Contract across several sites.
This will cover the provision of grounds maintenance and associated services in accordance with the objectives and requirements of the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23).
The scope includes but is not limited to the following:
- Routine and reactive grass cutting, lawn care, and turf management.
- Maintenance of hedges, shrubs, flowerbeds, and seasonal planting.
- Weed control, including the use of approved herbicides and environmentally sustainable alternatives.
- Litter picking, leaf clearance, and general grounds tidiness.
- Winter services, such as gritting and snow clearance (where applicable).
- Stewarding at select events and site
- Associated inspections, reporting and compliance with relevant health and safety, environmental standards and Park management.
This contract aims to provide compliant, flexible, and a value for money route for the Royal Parks across a number of sites. Successful suppliers will be required to demonstrate:
- Relevant experience and technical capability in grounds maintenance.
- Working to applicable ISO sustainability, quality, health and safety, and any other relevant standards (e.g., ISO 9001, 14001) or equivalent systems.
- A commitment to sustainability, biodiversity, and social value outcomes in line with the public benefit requirements of Procurement Act 2023.
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- How the procedure runs: There will be a PSQ stage and an ITT submission stage. Additional stages may also be incorporated into the project, although this has not yet been decided. Please note, there is a Preliminary Market Engagement notice should suppliers wish to participate in Market Engagement: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005914-2026
CPV: Composting services · Erection of fencing · Fencing, railing and safety equipment installation work · Grassing services · Grounds maintenance services · Horticultural services · Ice-clearing services · Landscape gardening services · Landscape protection services · Landscaping work for gardens · Landscaping work for parks · Landscaping work for riding areas · +13 more
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedPublished value£0
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Criterion 1: 60%
- Criterion 2: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
- Criterion 1
- Criterion 2
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How The Royal Parks Ltd buys Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731), and who usually turns up
The Royal Parks Ltd’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731) →
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A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Greater London.
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Half of these awards were announced within 113 days of the bid deadline.
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Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid60% / 6%
2–30% / 15%
4–640% / 33%
7+0% / 45%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate67%
Within ±2%7%
Above estimate27%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 7731No real estimate
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1 bid6%
2–315%
4–633%
7+45%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
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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.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- 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 Jan 2026, 16:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 23 Jan 2026, 16:05 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 30 Nov 2026
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-006335- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060daeFind a Tender
- How it runs
There will be a PSQ stage and an ITT submission stage. Additional stages may also be incorporated into the project, although this has not yet been decided.
Please note, there is a Preliminary Market Engagement notice should suppliers wish to participate in Market Engagement: www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005914-2026 ↗
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 30 May 2026, 00:00 BST
- Submission deadline
- 30 May 2026, 00:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 30 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
23 Jan 2026 → 3 Aug 2027 · 6 dates- Planning notice published272 days ago23 Jan 2026, 16:05 GMT
- Clarification questions by176 days ago30 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
- Tender notice expected175 days ago30 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline146 days ago30 May 2026, 00:00 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Award decision expected byin 39 days30 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 284 days3 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Planned procurement notice published23 Jan 2026, 16:05 GMTUK3
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
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- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender