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Published 23 Apr 2026, 12:45 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Market Engagement Notice for Landscape Maintenance at The Royal Parks On line event.

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: The Royal Parks Ltd (Public body)

ServicesAbove threshold
Sectors: Construction & Civil Engineering (45)Architecture & Engineering (71)Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services (77) Delivery: London (UKI)
Planned pipeline value£0pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 10 yrsends 4 Aug 2037 · starts 20 Aug 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Market Engagement Notice for Landscape Maintenance at The Royal Parks On line event. We have held a in person event on 11th February but this is now an additional event online which shall take place on 6 May 2026 at 15.00 hours

CPV: Grounds maintenance services · Landscape gardening services · Landscaping work for playgrounds · Landscaping work for sports grounds and recreational areas · Ornamental and pleasure gardens maintenance services · Parks maintenance services · Planting and maintenance services of green areas · Sports fields maintenance services · Tree-maintenance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 10 yrs
Contract period: 20 Aug 2027 – 4 Aug 2037 (10 yrs)
Delivery: London
45112720 Landscaping work for sports grounds and recreational areas45112723 Landscaping work for playgrounds71421000 Landscape gardening services77211500 Tree-maintenance services77310000 Planting and maintenance services of green areas77311000 Ornamental and pleasure gardens maintenance services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerThe Royal Parks Ltd · all categories
The marketPlanting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731) · Greater London
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 14 of 21 known-size awards · market: CPV 7731 · Greater London, n=36
67%72%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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 Greater London.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 7 of 40 known-location awards · market: CPV 7731 · Greater London, n=48
18%17%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Greater London.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 5 decided notices · market: CPV 7731 · Greater London, n=15
93 days24 days

Half of these awards were announced within 93 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 5 of 43 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7731 · Greater London, n=43
12%23%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer9 lots with bid counts · all categories
33% had one bid
The market32 lots with bid counts · CPV 7731 · Greater London
6% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid33% / 6%
Buyer: 3 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 32 lots with published bid counts.
2–30% / 16%
Buyer: 0 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 32 lots with published bid counts.
4–656% / 34%
Buyer: 5 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 11 of 32 lots with published bid counts.
7+11% / 44%
Buyer: 1 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 14 of 32 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer4 lots with estimate and award · all categories · too few to chart
The market29 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7731 · Greater London
69% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate69%
Market: 20 of 29 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%7%
Market: 2 of 29 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate24%
Market: 7 of 29 lots with an estimate and award.
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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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 7731120 monthsNo real estimate
Expected competition
i

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 32 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet6% single-bid risk
Past bids on 32 similar lots
1 bid6%
2 of 32 similar past lots received 1 bid (6%).
2–316%
5 of 32 similar past lots received 2–3 (16%).
4–634%
11 of 32 similar past lots received 4–6 (34%).
7+44%
14 of 32 similar past lots received 7+ (44%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 6 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No real estimate
The buyer published £0 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

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.

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.

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 Apr 2026, 12:45 BST
Last source update
23 Apr 2026, 12:45 BST
Authority reference
Market Engagement Notice for Landscape Maintenance at The Royal Parks On line event.
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-037053
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Grounds maintenance servicesLandscape gardening servicesLandscaping work for playgroundsLandscaping work for sports grounds and recreational areasOrnamental and pleasure gardens maintenance servicesParks maintenance servicesPlanting and maintenance services of green areasSports fields maintenance servicesTree-maintenance services
Delivery area
London (UKI)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06898b Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

23 Apr 2026 → 20 Aug 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published180 days ago
    23 Apr 2026, 12:45 BST
  2. Market engagement167 days ago
    6 May 2026, 23:59 BST

    The Royal Parks will host a supplier on line teams event on 6 May at 15.00 to 16.00 hours. Suppliers are invited register their interest by sending an email to The Royal Parks Procurement mail box marked Landscape Maintenance Event. "Procurement Mailbox" [email protected]

    Please provide the name of your company, and the email of the individual who wishes to attend.

    This event will take place on 6 May at 15.00 to 16.00 hours. This is a teams event please send in your email by Friday 1st May 12.00 hours

  3. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 303 days
    20 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    23 Apr 2026, 12:45 BST
    UK2

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

The Royal Parks Ltd

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PRNG-7762-JCRY The Old Police House, Hyde Park, London, London, London, W2 2UHContact email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure