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Published 23 Sept 2026, 10:51 BST

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Prospere Learning Trust Grounds Maintenance

Authority: Prospere Learning Trust (Public body)

5 lotsServicesOpen procedureAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Published estimate£350,000envelope for 5 lots · £420,000 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 20 Oct 202612:00 BST · 26d 10h left
Clarification cut-off 13 Oct 202612:00 BST · questions to the authority
Contract term 3 yrsup to 5 yrs with extensions · starts 1 Mar 2027
Bids per lot · the market 7CPV 7731 · n=39 · competition analysis ↓

What is being bought5 lots · detail below

Published requirement description

Prospere Learning Trust require Grounds maintenance of all schools, This competition is Lotted into 5 Lots.

CPV: Grounds maintenance services

Lots and requirements (5)Procurement structure

5 lots · all with a published value (£350,000 together) · same evaluation weights on every lot
Lot #1Wythenshawe (PIP,PIP 6th Form, MEA, PNR)Renewal 3 yrsSMEVCSEPublished value£150,000
Grounds Maintenance for Wythenshawe (PIP,PIP 6th Form, MEA, PNR)
Contract period: 1 Mar 2027 — 28 Feb 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 5 yrs with extensionsEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligibleDelivery: UKTurnover guideline: ~£99,909/yr≈ 2× annual value
Value
£150,000 exc. VAT · £180,000 inc. VAT
Extensions
Extensions allowed: Yes (2 x 12 months)
77314000 Grounds maintenance services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Lot #2CHS, SOU, CEN, GRARenewal 3 yrsSMEVCSEPublished value£50,000
Grounds Maintenance for CHS, SOU, CEN, GRA
Contract period: 1 Mar 2027 — 28 Feb 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 5 yrs with extensionsEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligibleDelivery: UKTurnover guideline: ~£33,303/yr≈ 2× annual value
Value
£50,000 exc. VAT · £60,000 inc. VAT
Extensions
Extensions allowed: Yes (2 x 12 months)
77314000 Grounds maintenance services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Lot #3PEARenewal 3 yrsSMEVCSEPublished value£50,000
Grounds Maintenance PEA
Contract period: 1 Mar 2027 — 28 Feb 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 5 yrs with extensionsEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligibleDelivery: UKTurnover guideline: ~£33,303/yr≈ 2× annual value
Value
£50,000 exc. VAT · £60,000 inc. VAT
Extensions
Extensions allowed: Yes (2 x 12 months)
77314000 Grounds maintenance services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Lot #4CAM, PRO, OHORenewal 3 yrsSMEVCSEPublished value£50,000
Grounds Maintenance CAM, PRO, OHO
Contract period: 1 Mar 2027 — 28 Feb 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 5 yrs with extensionsEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligibleDelivery: UKTurnover guideline: ~£33,303/yr≈ 2× annual value
Value
£50,000 exc. VAT · £60,000 inc. VAT
Extensions
Extensions allowed: Yes (2 x 12 months)
77314000 Grounds maintenance services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Lot #5AstroturfRenewal 3 yrsSMEVCSEPublished value£50,000
Grounds Maintenance Astroturf
Contract period: 1 Mar 2027 — 28 Feb 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 5 yrs with extensionsEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligibleDelivery: UKTurnover guideline: ~£33,303/yr≈ 2× annual value
Value
£50,000 exc. VAT · £60,000 inc. VAT
Extensions
Extensions allowed: Yes (2 x 12 months)
77314000 Grounds maintenance services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
i

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).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add more
How bids are scored · same split on all 5 lots
Quality: 60%Price: 40%

No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731) in North West England — and who usually turns up

Prospere Learning Trust has too little published record in this market to describe on its own; the North West England market stands beside whatever it has. 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

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 (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.

This authority

Prospere Learning Trust

contract notices in 36 months: 5 in all categories (1 without competition · 1 route not published)

Bids per lot
i

How many companies usually bid for work like this.

Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 1 lots. All 1 lots are from older notices, which count bids received. Small sample.

Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.

13all categories · 36m · n=1 lots
Single-bid lots
i

How often only one company bid.

Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 1 lots. Small sample.

High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.

0%all categories · 36m · n=1 lots
Award vs estimate
i

Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.

Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no comparable estimate → award pairs.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

no comparable estimate → award pairs
Deadline → award date
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.

Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no award dates published.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

no award dates published
Notice updates
i

How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 3 notices.

Last 24 months.

1all categories · 24m · n=3 notices
Awarded without competition
i

How often this buyer awards without a competition.

Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 4 notices.

Last 36 months.

25%all categories · 36m · n=4 notices
How procedures are run moderate · n=4
i

Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

Based on 5 notices · all categories, last 36 months.

  • Open 75%
  • Selective 0%
  • Limited 25%
  • Direct 0%

5 notices · all categories. Open and selective are competed (they feed the bid and price figures above); limited and direct are not; notices publishing no route are outside all four.

The market · authority’s region

North West England · Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731)

contract notices delivered in North West England in 36 months: 68 in CPV 7731 (64 competed, 2 route not published) · 144 in division 77 (130 competed, 11 route not published) · the notice publishes no delivery location, so the authority’s registered region is used

Bids per lot
i

How many companies usually bid for work like this.

Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7731), last 36 months: 39 lots. 19 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 8) and 20 from older notices (bids received, middle 6).

Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.

7CPV 7731 · 36m · n=39 lots
Single-bid lots
i

How often only one company bid.

Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7731), last 36 months: 39 lots.

High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.

0%CPV 7731 · 36m · n=39 lots
Award vs estimate
i

Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.

Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7731), last 36 months: 14 pairs.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

11% belowCPV 7731 · 36m · n=14 pairs
Deadline → award date
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.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7731), last 36 months: 14 notices.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

27dCPV 7731 · 36m · n=14 notices
SME bidders
i

How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.

SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7731), last 36 months: 30 lots.

Last 36 months.

78%CPV 7731 · 36m · n=30 lots
Winners based in the region
i

How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.

Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7731), last 36 months: 42 awards.

Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.

Last 36 months.

90%CPV 7731 · 36m · n=42 awards
Bids per lot · history, not this notice’s lots robust · n=39
i

How the number of bidders is spread across lots.

Each lot with a published bid count is put in a band: one bid, two to three, four to six, seven or more. Real competitions only.

Based on 39 lots on 27 contested notices · CPV 7731, last 36 months.

  • 1 bid 0%
  • 2–3 21%
  • 4–6 28%
  • 7+ 51%

Median 7 · 39 lots on 27 contested notices · CPV 7731.

Winning award vs estimate robust · n=14
i

How often winners come in below, near or above the estimate.

Each lot with both an estimate and an award is placed by how far the award sat from the estimate.

Based on 14 lot pairs · CPV 7731, last 36 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

  • Below estimate 64%
  • Within ±2% 7%
  • Above estimate 29%

14 lot pairs · CPV 7731.

robust · n=14
i

Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.

We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.

This notice gives one total for several lots, so we show the percentage but do not turn it into pounds.

A benchmark, not a price to bid.

Awards in North West England (CPV 7731, n=14 pairs) land a median 11% below. Applied to each lot’s own published value in the lot table below — the notice total (£350,000) is an envelope for 5 lots and is not converted.
Coverage and what to read with care
  • Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
  • 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). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
  • “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
Open procedure
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Open for tender
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
No (one-off requirement)
First published
23 Sept 2026, 10:51 BST
Last source update
23 Sept 2026, 10:51 BST
Award evaluation window
Submission end — 1 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
Authority reference
CA18425
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Grounds maintenance services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077853 Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Submit via MultiQuote
Submission portal named on this notice: MultiQuote · Who buys & how to bid on MultiQuote
Supplier login requiredElectronic submission allowedLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free
Expression of interest (EOI)
Tender submission deadline
20 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
Clarification deadline
13 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
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Timeline

5 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Tender notice published1 day ago
    23 Sept 2026, 10:51 BST
  2. Clarification questions byin 19 days
    13 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
  3. Submission deadlinein 26 days
    20 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
  4. Contract startsin 158 days
    1 Mar 2027, 00:00 GMT
  5. Award decision expected byin 159 days
    1 Mar 2027, 23:59 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
  1. Tender notice published
    23 Sept 2026, 10:51 BSTUK4

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Prospere Learning Trust

Contracting authorityPublic undertaking GB-PPON: PRGM-1725-MTMG Firbank Road, Newall Green, Manchester, North West, M23 2YS [email protected] 0161 436 3009

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Conflict of interest declarationtenderConflict of interest declarationNot published

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender