Official UK procurement notice
Winchester City Council Grounds Maintenance Services
Authority: Winchester City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWinchester City Council (the Authority) is aiming to re-tender the service contracts for Grounds Maintenance and Public Realm Cleansing Services in mid March 2026. This notice is to formally notify the market of the upcoming opportunity to tender for the Grounds Maintenance Services. It is envisaged that the services will be spilt into 2 separate tender requirements, with one contract available for Grounds Maintenance services and one contract for Public Realm Cleansing services. This process is subject to internal approvals. Suppliers will be able to tender for one or both opportunities. Suppliers are encouraged to ensure they are registered on the EU-Supply e-procurement portal to get updates regarding these opportunities, including when they go live. Using the above portal, suppliers can formally register their interest in these opportunities. Please use the eu-supply portal to register your interest under the project: WCC1618a Winchester City Council Grounds Maintenance Services Expressions of interest can be received up to 12 noon 13th March 2026. Please note - suppliers who do not express an interest, will still be able to tender for the opportunities. The new contract for Grounds Maintenance Services will be mobilised from August 2026 with a view to start the new contract by October 2027.
- How the procedure runs: It is envisaged that this procurement exercise will follow a two stage tender process. Stage 1 - An initial shortlisting process that evaluates a suppliers experience, knowledge and capabilities, as well as economic and financial standing. Suppliers from this stage will be shortlisted to stage 2. Stage 2 - A final written tender process, evaluating a suppliers performance against defined quality and price criteria in line with specification and contractual requirements.
CPV: Grounds maintenance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£16,000,000
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Winchester City Council buys Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731), and who usually turns up
Winchester City 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
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.
Here, local means registered in South East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South East England.
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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 79 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.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
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 bid57% / 5%
2–30% / 22%
4–629% / 40%
7+14% / 33%
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 estimate50% / 55%
Within ±2%17% / 14%
Above estimate33% / 31%
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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 7731Published estimate£16m
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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 58 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid5%
2–322%
4–640%
7+33%
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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
- 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)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 6 Nov 2025, 17:00 GMT
- Last source update
- 23 Feb 2026, 17:54 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 3 Aug 2026
- Authority reference
WCC1618a- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-016265- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05dc3aFind a Tender
- How it runs
It is envisaged that this procurement exercise will follow a two stage tender process. Stage 1 - An initial shortlisting process that evaluates a suppliers experience, knowledge and capabilities, as well as economic and financial standing. Suppliers from this stage will be shortlisted to stage 2. Stage 2 - A final written tender process, evaluating a suppliers performance against defined quality and price criteria in line with specification and contractual requirements.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 15 Apr 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 8 Apr 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
6 Nov 2025 → 1 Oct 2027 · 8 dates- Planning notice published350 days ago6 Nov 2025, 17:00 GMT
- Market engagement327 days ago28 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Latest notice published241 days ago23 Feb 2026, 17:54 GMT
- Tender notice expected222 days ago13 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Clarification questions by197 days ago8 Apr 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadline190 days ago15 Apr 2026, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected by79 days ago3 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 344 days1 Oct 2027
Notice history
7 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 6 Nov 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 Nov 2025, 17:00 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published17 Nov 2025, 09:00 GMTUK2
- Planned procurement notice published23 Feb 2026, 17:54 GMTUK3
- Published value updated to £16,000,00023 Feb 2026, 17:54 GMTwas £0
- Status changed to planned23 Feb 2026, 17:54 GMT
- Procurement method changed23 Feb 2026, 17:54 GMT
- Deadline published: 15 Apr 2026, 12:00 BST23 Feb 2026, 17:54 GMT
Published amendments (1)
Deadline for PME submissions extended to 28/11/2025.
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 (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender