COV - Supply of Tools and Equipment 2026

Buyer
Coventry City Council
Value
£800,000
Closes
1 December 2026
Where
Coventry, the West Midlands
Type
Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)

In plain English

Coventry City Council wants to appoint one supplier to provide grounds maintenance tools, protective gear, weed spraying equipment and other operational items over the period of a framework agreement (a contract that lets the council order from the supplier as needed). The estimated value is £800,000.

What the buyer wants

• Supply and deliver grounds maintenance equipment such as hedge trimmers, strimmers, mowers, mower blades, strimmer cord and spark plugs • Supply specialist PPE such as chainsaw gloves and rigger gloves, plus weed spraying equipment such as knapsack sprayers, lances, nozzles and petrol cans • Supply other operational tools and items, including litter pickers, as the council requires them (the list is not exhaustive)

Requirements

What could rule a small business out (our reading of the notice, written with AI): The notice sets out no specific qualification criteria, but because one supplier will cover a wide range of tools, PPE and spraying equipment worth £800,000 with delivery included, a small business would need to be able to supply that full range and deliver it, which may rule out smaller firms.

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How to bid

This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.

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