Official UK procurement notice
Preliminary Market Engagement Notice Grounds and Cleansing Maintenance Service Review
Authority: Borough of Telford & Wrekin (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPurpose of this Notice
In accordance with Sections 16 and 17 of the Procurement Act 2023 and the Procurement Regulations 2024, Telford & Wrekin Council intend to conduct preliminary market engagement to inform the development of the specification and procurement strategy for Grounds and Cleansing Maintenance Services.
This engagement aims to:
Understand market capability and capacity.
Gather feedback on potential delivery models and risks.
Encourage participation from a diverse range of suppliers.
Participation in this engagement will not confer any advantage in any subsequent procurement process. All responses will be treated equally and confidentially.
All suppliers will be treated equally, and engagement will be conducted in a transparent manner.
Scope of Requirement
Grounds maintenance: parks, open spaces, shrub beds, verges, cemeteries, sports fields, grass cutting, tree and woodland management.
Street cleansing: litter picking, mechanical sweeping, seasonal leaf clearance.
Environmental tasks: fly-tip removal, graffiti clearance, litter removal, litter bin servicing and associated services.
Burials.
Expected contract start date: 1 April 2029.
Interested parties are invited to:
Complete the Supplier Questionnaire
Attend a two-party Market Engagement meeting with the council on 21st or 22nd May 2026.
Responses should be clear and concise.
Where applicable, provide supporting documentation or examples.
Indicate any assumptions made in your responses.
Timetable
Publication of Notice 27th February 2026
Questionnaire Release 27th February 2026
Deadline for Responses 17th April 2026 noon
Analysis of Responses 20th April to 1st May 2026
Market Engagement Sessions May 21st or May 22nd 2026
CPV: Environmental services · Grounds maintenance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Borough of Telford & Wrekin buys Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731), and who usually turns up
Borough of Telford & Wrekin’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: Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in West Midlands (authority’s region).
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.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 32 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.
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.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid40% / 36%
2–327% / 10%
4–627% / 18%
7+7% / 36%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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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.
Below estimate14% / 68%
Within ±2%86% / 12%
Above estimate0% / 20%
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.
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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 7731Estimate not published
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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 39 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid36%
2–310%
4–618%
7+36%
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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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- 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
- 27 Feb 2026, 12:08 GMT
- Last source update
- 27 Feb 2026, 12:08 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-017852- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065e2dFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
27 Feb 2026 → 17 Apr 2026 · 3 dates- Contract starts244 days ago27 Feb 2026
- Planning notice published243 days ago27 Feb 2026, 12:08 GMT
- Market engagement194 days ago17 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
Preliminary Market engagement ends on 17th April noon. Face to Face meetings with respondents on May 21st or 22nd May 2026.
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 Feb 2026, 12:08 GMTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender