Official UK procurement notice
Plant Materials · UK public procurement notice
Authority: High Speed Two (HS2) Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionHigh Speed Two (HS2) Limited (‘HS2 Ltd’) is responsible for developing and promoting the new high speed railway known as High Speed Two (‘HS2’) (also referred to as ‘the Project’). HS2 will run between London and Birmingham. Plant Material is required by HS2 Ltd to create new woodland, screen planting, hedgerows, landscape planting, ecological habitats and feature planting as the Project develops. This procurement for the supply of plant material is part of a wider set of HS2 procurements intended to deliver the Project.
The scope of the Plant Material Contract is to establish a supply agreement by which HS2 Ltd can instruct the collecting of seed, the growing and supply of plant material to meet the Project's planting requirements. It is envisaged that the Plant Material Contractor will provide HS2 Ltd with plants and trees grown to contract from seed of specified provenance for the project planting areas. The plant material grown will be supplied via free-issue by HS2 Ltd to HS2 Ltd's Main Works Civils Contractors (MWCC) and/or other HS2 Contracts.
CPV: Agricultural and horticultural products · Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products · Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services · Horticultural products · Tree-nursery products
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How High Speed Two (HS2) Limited buys Horticultural and nursery products (CPV 0312), and who usually turns up
High Speed Two (HS2) Limited’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: Horticultural and nursery products (CPV 0312) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in the delivery region.
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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.
No decision dates published to compare.
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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.
The buyer’s share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid0%
2–30%
4–680%
7+20%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
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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.
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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 0312Published estimate£19m
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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 10 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid20%
2–370%
4–610%
7+0%
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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), 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- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 26 May 2026, 14:58 BST
- Last source update
- 27 May 2026, 15:42 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-049841- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
26 May 2026 → 30 Jun 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published149 days ago26 May 2026, 14:58 BST
- Latest notice published148 days ago27 May 2026, 15:42 BST
- Market engagement131 days ago12 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
HS2 is conducting the preliminary market engagement for Plant material procurement by undertaking a survey in the form of a questionnaire supported by an engagement briefing pack. The objective of this preliminary market engagement is to understand market interest in a contract to deliver Plant Material to the HS2 Project and to help inform the tender specification. In particular,
- To raise awareness of HS2 Ltd’s plans.
- To assess interest and seek views on the opportunity including potential bid structures (e.g. consortium) and the specialist capabilities being sought.
- To consult on preferred commercial and delivery structures.
- To explore risk appetite and related considerations.
- To seek views on the proposed procurement timeline.
The survey will be available to interested parties from 27th May 2026 and the deadline for completed entries is 13:00 on Friday 12th June 2026. To request a copy of the market engagement pack, email: [email protected] stating your company name and relevant contact details.
Organisations wishing to participate should note that engaging in this preliminary market engagement exercise, including completing and returning questionnaire response, is not a prerequisite to participating in any subsequent competitive process.
HS2 Ltd will review responses to this engagement process and may conduct further iterative engagement processes, as it may require.
In any subsequent procurement HS2 Ltd will make all relevant market engagement documents available to potential suppliers.
Participation in this market engagement exercise will be wholly at each responding organisation's own cost. No expenses or costs incurred by any organisation responding to this notice and/or participating in this engagement process will be reimbursed by the HS2 Ltd.
This market engagement exercise and any associated documents or communications should not be regarded as an investment recommendation or defined opportunity. No information contained in the documents or in any communication made between HS2 and any organisation in connection with any aspect of this market engagement exercise shall be relied upon as constituting a contract, agreement or representation that any contract shall be awarded. Whether or not HS2 subsequently commences a procurement and/or thereafter awards any contract related to this potential opportunity shall be solely at its discretion.
To take part in this engagement, request a copy of the market engagement pack by emailing: [email protected] noting the submission deadline of 13:00 on Friday 12th June 2026.
- Tender notice expected20 days ago1 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 251 days30 Jun 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 26 May 2026- Pipeline notice published26 May 2026, 14:58 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 May 2026, 15:42 BSTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender