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Official UK procurement notice
Moss Side Farm Softrack Mulcher and Chipper
Authority: NATURAL ENGLAND (Central government)
Sectors: CPV 16 Delivery: North West (UKD)
Published estimate £40,000≈ £40k / year · £48,000 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 19 Oct 202609:00 BST · 30d 16h left
Contract term 1 yrstarts 30 Oct 2026
Bids per lot · this authority 1.5all categories, every route · n=4 · competition analysis ↓What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSupply a woodchipper and a forestry flail for use on a Loglogic Softrack 140.
CPV: Agricultural and forestry machinery for soil preparation or cultivation
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1Published value£40,000
- Value
- £40,000 exc. VAT · £48,000 inc. VAT
16100000 Agricultural and forestry machinery for soil preparation or cultivation
What it takes to win
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add moreHow bids are scored
'Full details are available in the RFQ'.
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How NATURAL ENGLAND buys Agricultural and forestry machinery for soil preparation or cultivation (CPV 1610) — and who usually turns up
NATURAL ENGLAND’s own published record, next to the North West England market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids.
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How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards report one bid by definition and are left out. Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
This authority
NATURAL ENGLAND
contract notices in 36 months: 1 in CPV 1610 · 18 in division 16 · 217 in all categories (2 direct)
Bids per lot1.5all categories, every route · 24m · n=4 notices
Single-bid lots50%all categories, every route · 24m · n=4 notices
Award vs estimate5% belowdivision 16 · 36m · n=15 pairs
Deadline → award12dall categories · 36m · n=16 notices
Notice updates3all categories · 24m · n=255 notices
Awarded without competition0%division 16 · 36m · n=18 notices
The market · delivery region
North West England · Agricultural and forestry machinery for soil preparation or cultivation (CPV 1610)
contract notices delivered in North West England in 36 months: 1 in CPV 1610 (1 contested) · 13 in division 16 (12 contested)
Bids per lot—no bid reports published
Single-bid lots—no bid reports published
Award vs estimate9% belowdivision 16 · 36m · n=4 pairs
Deadline → award—no award dates published
SME winners100%division 16 · 36m · n=4 awards
Winners based in the region50%division 16 · 36m · n=4 awards
robust · n=15 Awards in NATURAL ENGLAND (division 16, n=15 pairs) land a median 5% below: on this notice’s £40,000 that is about £38,160. Context for a bid, not a recommended price.
Method and what to read with care
- Two columns, no blending. The authority column walks its own record only: notices in the 4-digit class, then the 2-digit division, then all categories (36 months, per lot, contested only), and as a last resort its 24-month row across all categories (per notice, every route). The market column is the notice’s primary delivery ITL1 × the same class, then division (36 months). Nothing is filled from the UK-wide class; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable.
- Per lot, contested only. Find a Tender publishes bid counts per lot; a seven-lot tender is seven contests. Procedures awarded without competition (limited / direct) are excluded from bids, price pairs and decision days — they report one bid by definition. Frameworks and DPS are a separate population from contracts (6–7 bids per lot against 2–4) and only the notice’s own kind is shown.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). Award-vs-estimate pairs need a lot estimate, one active award on the lot, one canonical supplier and a gap under 60 %; about 30 % of pairs are exact matches (the buyer published the award at the estimate). n is on every figure; below 3 the tile is muted, never hidden.
- Pounds. The expected award applies the authority’s median movement (or the region’s, when the authority has fewer than 3 pairs) to this notice’s estimate; the middle half uses the region’s quartiles. A multi-lot notice publishes an envelope, so the movement is applied per lot, never to the total. A benchmark, not a recommended price.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 18 Sept 2026, 13:18 BST
- Last source update
- 18 Sept 2026, 13:18 BST
- Authority reference
NE180926MSFSMC- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07756eFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Expression of interest (EOI)
- —
- Tender submission deadline
- 19 Oct 2026, 09:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Electronic submission
- Not allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
To apply for this opportunity you must submit your quotation meeting the requirements detailed in the Request for Quotation (RFQ) attached.
Your response must be sent to [email protected] by 9am on 19/10/2026.
If you have any clarification questions linked to this opportunity or the procurement process please submit these via email to [email protected]. Please note that, unless commercially sensitive, both the question and the response will be circulated to all tenderers.
Published estimate £40,000 excludes VAT (£48,000 including VAT).
Timeline
3 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today18 Sept 2026, 13:18 BST
- Submission deadlinein 31 days19 Oct 2026, 09:00 BST
- Contract startsin 41 days30 Oct 2026, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published18 Sept 2026, 13:18 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications Request for quotation
- Bidding documents and specifications Order form
- Bidding documents and specifications Commercial response form
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender