Official UK procurement notice
PARKS LANDSCAPING WORKS MTC – PHASE 2
Authority: Sheffield City Council (Local council)
SCC is seeking to enter a Measured Term Contract (MTC) with a Landscape contractor to enable a long-term partnership, which will be a stream-lined, cost-effective delivery mechanism for a significant number of Parks and Countryside Service green space improvement projects. The repetitive nature of a large proportion of parks projects means an MTC is an appropriate way to generate efficiencies in the delivery of the Parks Programme of work. Project specific designs will be required for each order, but the MTC will create access to a contractor to deliver the following works:
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSCC is seeking to enter a Measured Term Contract (MTC) with a Landscape contractor to enable a long-term partnership, which will be a stream-lined, cost-effective delivery mechanism for a significant number of Parks and Countryside Service green space improvement projects. The repetitive nature of a large proportion of parks projects means an MTC is an appropriate way to generate efficiencies in the delivery of the Parks Programme of work. Project specific designs will be required for each order, but the MTC will create access to a contractor to deliver the following works:
- Drainage – sports field systems, land drainage systems, drainage in relation to new recreational facility installations
- Parks & Countryside access controls infrastructure: Fencing – knee rails, sports court fencing, vehicular access gates, park railings, access control infrastructure
- Landscaping – utilities, land forming (for recreation, drainage, access controls)
- Playgrounds – provision of new playgrounds or significantly re-modelled playgrounds
- Multi-use games areas
CPV: Fencing, railing and safety equipment installation work · Landscaping work · Landscaping work for green areas · Landscaping work for parks · Landscaping work for playgrounds · Landscaping work for sports grounds and recreational areas
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£2,500,000
- Condition of participation
As stated within the Suitability Assessment, Instructions to Tenderers and Tender Documentation.
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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).
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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 award criteria (2)
- Quality
- Price
- Condition of participation
As stated within the Suitability Assessment, Instructions to Tenderers and Tender Documentation.
- Price carries 70 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 7 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £1,249,180 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Sheffield City Council buys Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work (CPV 4511), and who usually turns up
Sheffield City Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work (CPV 4511) →
How the contest usually goes
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A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 49 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid30% / 15%
2–333% / 23%
4–612% / 46%
7+25% / 15%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Awards below, close to or above the estimate, per lot. The buyer side adds below-threshold contracts with a pre-award estimate; an award inside a published range counts as close.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate60% / 43%
Within ±2%40% / 26%
Above estimate0% / 30%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 45Published estimate£2.5m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 45. The comparison uses that group.
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 260 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid17%
2–321%
4–626%
7+36%
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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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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Horticon LtdEarlier contract | PARKS LANDSCAPING WORKS MTC ended Jul 2026 | — | £3.3m | Matched as the earlier contract |
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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 and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder appears in live search, the Retender Radar, contract pages, organisation counts, the earlier contracts and past suppliers on a tender's competition panel, the buyer's decision figure and its award against estimate; the other analytical figures are built from Find a Tender notices.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
79% title match.
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.
79% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (79% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
PARKS LANDSCAPING WORKS MTC — held by Horticon Ltd; the published contract ends 31 Jul 2026.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 28 Sept 2026, 09:33 BST
- Last source update
- 12 Nov 2026, 09:36 GMT
- Authority reference
PC07338- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-107392- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077b23Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via EU-Supply (CTM)- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 14 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 7 Dec 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
28 Sept 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published45 days ago28 Sept 2026, 09:33 BST
- Tender notice published1h ago12 Nov 2026, 09:36 GMT
- Today12 Nov 2026
- Clarification questions byin 25 days7 Dec 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 32 days14 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 139 days1 Apr 2027
Notice history
4 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 28 Sept 2026- Pipeline notice published28 Sept 2026, 09:33 BSTUK1
- Tender notice published12 Nov 2026, 09:36 GMTUK4
- Status changed to active12 Nov 2026, 09:36 GMT
- Deadline published: 14 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT12 Nov 2026, 09:36 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
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender