Official UK procurement notice
SPC Grounds maintenance contract
Authority: Stanwick Parish Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionStanwick Parish Council is seeking to appoint a suitably experienced and competent contractor to provide grounds maintenance and associated services across Council-managed sites within the parish of Stanwick.
The contract will cover the routine management and maintenance of public green spaces and associated facilities, including recreation and leisure areas, public open spaces, natural areas, highway verges, linked footpaths, allotments, Stanwick Cemetery and St Laurence Churchyard.
Core services will include grass cutting and edging; shrub, herbaceous and flower bed maintenance; rose bed maintenance; hedge maintenance; young tree and yew tree maintenance; litter, leaf and debris clearance; hard surface maintenance; weed and vegetation control; allotment maintenance; and cemetery services including grave digging, interments, cremated remains, grave reinstatement and associated duties.
The Contractor will be required to maintain all sites to the standards specified in the Council's Grounds Maintenance Specification, using appropriate horticultural, environmental, health and safety and operational practices. The service is required to be delivered in a manner that maintains sites in a clean, safe, tidy and well-maintained condition, while taking account of biodiversity, wildlife and environmental sustainability.
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The Contractor will also be responsible for the appropriate removal and disposal of waste and arisings generated through the service and for complying with all applicable legislation and regulatory requirements.
Tenderers will be required to submit method statements covering service delivery, environmental sustainability, staffing, and health and safety/risk assessment arrangements.
The contract will initially run for three years, with an option for the Council to extend for a further twelve months, subject to satisfactory performance and the Council's requirements.
The contract will comprise annual-priced core tasks together with additional optional works instructed by the Council and paid in accordance with the Schedule of Rates.
The detailed requirements, site information, performance standards and contractual requirements are set out in the procurement documents.
CPV: Horticultural services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1RenewalPublished value£100,000
- Value
- £100,000 exc. VAT · £120,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- 1 year extension on the same terms can be mutually agreed prior to 30th September 2029
What it takes to win
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add moreThe Parish Council will evaluate all compliant tenders using the pre-set evaluation criteria and scoring methodology published with the tender documents. Each tender will be assessed consistently against the published criteria and awarded the applicable scores and weightings. The contract will be awarded to the tender that satisfies the Council's requirements and achieves the highest overall evaluation outcome in accordance with the published assessment methodology, representing the Most Advantageous Tender (MAT). The evaluation will be undertaken before consideration of the tender price in the context of the Council's overall budget and procurement requirements. The Council will not automatically select the lowest-priced tender. Price will be assessed in accordance with the published evaluation methodology alongside the other stated criteria. The procurement has been conducted in accordance with the Parish Council's Standing Orders, Financial Regulations and applicable public procurement legislation. The Council will seek to achieve value for money while applying the published evaluation methodology consistently and transparently.
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
Horticultural services (CPV 7730) in East Midlands — and who usually turns up
Stanwick Parish Council has too little published record in this market to describe on its own; the East Midlands market stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Horticultural services (CPV 7730) →
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.
Stanwick Parish Council
no contract notices in Horticultural services (CPV 7730) in 36 months
Stanwick Parish Council has published no bid reports, no comparable estimate → award pairs and no award dates that this analysis can use — in Horticultural services (CPV 7730) (36 months) or across all categories (24 months).
East Midlands · Horticultural services (CPV 7730)
contract notices delivered in East Midlands in 36 months: 17 in CPV 7730 (17 contested) · 148 in division 77 (142 contested)
robust · n=5 Awards in East Midlands (CPV 7730, n=5 pairs) land a median 1% below: on this notice’s £100,000 that is about £99,500, middle half £82,000–£100,000 (quartiles from East Midlands · CPV 7730). 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 lot, contested contract notices). 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
- Services
- 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
- 21 Sept 2026, 12:01 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Sept 2026, 12:01 BST
- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07764aFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Expression of interest (EOI)
- —
- Tender submission deadline
- 30 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 9 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Electronic submission
- Not allowed
Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today21 Sept 2026, 12:01 BST
- Clarification questions byin 18 days9 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadlinein 39 days30 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 160 days1 Mar 2027, 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 published21 Sept 2026, 12:01 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (6)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications File summarising key point of the procurement process
- Bidding documents and specifications File detailing the Specification for the contract
- Bidding documents and specifications Questionnaire to be completed and returned
- Bidding documents and specifications Methodology of evaluation of the questionnaire
- Bidding documents and specifications File providing site maps
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender