Official UK procurement notice
The Provision of County Urban and Rural Verge Maintenance Services in Powys, Mid-Wales
Authority: Powys County Council (Local council)
What is being bought2 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionPowys County Council is currently developing a tender process to appoint contractors to undertake verge maintenance (grass cutting) on it's County Urban and Rural road network.
The procurement is anticipated to be published shortly, with service commencement from 1st April 2027.
The procurement will be split into two service lots, with geographical sub-lots below these:
Lot 1 - County Rural Verge Maintenance:
- 1.1 North Powys
- 1.2 Mid Powys
- 1.3 South Powys
Lot 2 - County Urban Verge Maintenance:
- 2.1 North Central
- 2.2 North East
- 2.3 North West
- 2.4 Mid East
- 2.5 Mid West
- 2.6 South East
- 2.7 South Central
Contractors will be able to apply for a single lot, multiple lots or all lots.
CPV: Grounds maintenance services
Lots and requirements (2)Procurement structure
2 lots · no lot values published · same evaluation weights on every lotLot #1County Rural Verge MaintenancePlannedRenewal
Provision of rural verge maintenance in Powys. This lot is sub-divided into three geographic lots:
- Lot 1.1 - North Rural Verge Maintenance - approx. 2,200km of road network
- Lot 1.2 - Mid Rural Verge Maintenance - approx. 1,200km of road network
- Lot 1.3 - South Rural Verge Maintenance - approx. 1,200km of road network
Lot #2County Urban Verge MaintenancePlannedRenewal
Provision of urban verge maintenance in Powys. This lot is sub-divided into seven geographic lots:
- Lot 2.1 - North Central Urban Verge Maintenance - approx. 165,000m2
- Lot 2.2 - North East Urban Verge Maintenance - approx. 135,000m2
- Lot 2.3 - North West Urban Verge Maintenance - approx. 55,000m2
- Lot 2.4 - Mid East Urban Verge Maintenance - approx. 95,000m2
- Lot 2.5 - Mid West Urban Verge Maintenance - approx. 70,000m2
- Lot 2.6 - South East Urban Verge Maintenance - approx. 60,000m2
- Lot 2.7 - South Central Urban Verge Maintenance - approx. 70,000m2
What it takes to wini
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 morei
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 sub-criteria (10)
- Contract Delivery Team and Resourcing: 6%
- Methodology and Service Delivery Approach: 6%
- Health and Safety - management: 7.5%
- Health and Safety - operational approach: 7.5%
- Quality Management and Performance Assurance: 7.5%
- Mobilisation, Business Continuity and Service Resilience: 4.5%
- Community Benefits Plan: 7.5%
- Price: 40%
- Environmental Management and Biodiversity Protection: 6%
- Sustainability Risk Assessment Mitigation: 7.5%
Published award criteria (10)
- Price
- Contract Delivery Team and Resourcing
- Methodology and Service Delivery Approach
- Health and Safety - management: Note that this is a Pass/Fail requirement and bidders must meet the minimum scoring threshold described in the Instructions to Tenderers document.
- Health and Safety - operational approach: Note that this is a Pass/Fail requirement and bidders must meet the minimum scoring threshold described in the Instructions to Tenderers document.
- Quality Management and Performance Assurance
- Environmental Management and Biodiversity Protection
- Mobilisation, Business Continuity and Service Resilience
- Community Benefits Plan
- Sustainability Risk Assessment Mitigation
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Powys County Council buys Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731), and who usually turns up
Powys County Council’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: Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731) →
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.
Here, local means registered in Wales (Cymru).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Wales (Cymru).
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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.
Half of these awards were announced within 83 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 bid32% / 14%
2–330% / 36%
4–622% / 39%
7+16% / 11%
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 estimate60% / 31%
Within ±2%29% / 19%
Above estimate11% / 50%
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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 #1County Rural Verge MaintenanceCPV 77314000Estimate 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 28 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid14%
2–336%
4–639%
7+11%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| JIMMY HUGHES SERVICES LTDEarlier contract | Tender for the provision of rural verge maintenance services in north Powysnotice published Aug 2024 | — | £219k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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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.
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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.
Lot #2County Urban Verge MaintenanceCPV 77314000Estimate 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 28 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid14%
2–336%
4–639%
7+11%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| JIMMY HUGHES SERVICES LTDEarlier contract | Tender for the provision of rural verge maintenance services in north Powysnotice published Aug 2024 | — | £219k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
59% 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.
59% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (59% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Tender for the provision of rural verge maintenance services in north Powys — held by JIMMY HUGHES SERVICES LTD; no contract end date published.
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
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA, CPTPP)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 23 May 2025, 14:46 BST
- Last source update
- 15 Oct 2026, 11:45 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 19 Feb 2027
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-097393- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-052351Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 27 Nov 2026
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en, cy
Tender submission via eTenderWales - etenderwales.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/home.html ↗
Timeline
23 May 2025 → 1 Apr 2027 · 6 dates- Planning notice published23 May 2025, 14:46 BST
- Latest notice published6 days ago15 Oct 2026, 11:45 BST
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 13 days2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 37 days27 Nov 2026
- Award decision expected byin 122 days19 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 162 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
5 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 23 May 2025- Pipeline notice published23 May 2025, 14:46 BSTUK1
- Planned procurement notice published15 Oct 2026, 11:45 BSTUK3
- Published value published: £1,500,00015 Oct 2026, 11:45 BST
- Procurement method changed15 Oct 2026, 11:45 BST
- Deadline published: 27 Nov 202615 Oct 2026, 11:45 BST
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
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender