CPU 8586 Grounds Maintenance Operated Plant Framework
- Buyer
- Nottingham City Council
- Value
- £400,000
- Closes
- 30 October 2026
- Where
- Nottingham, the East Midlands
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
Nottingham City Council needs a framework of contractors to provide rural grounds maintenance and vegetation management services along highways. They want suppliers with tractors, mowers, hedge cutters, and trained operators to work on verge cutting, flailing, and seasonal maintenance across their area. They will appoint up to 3 contractors for up to 4 years.
What the buyer wants
• Supply and operate specialist agricultural plant and equipment, including tractors, towable mowers, out-front mowers, flail arms, hedge cutters, embankment mowers, and remote-controlled slope mowers • Provide trained plant operators to carry out highway verge, embankment and rural vegetation management, grass cutting, flailing, hedge cutting and seasonal vegetation works • Transport plant to site as required and deliver work according to site-specific requirements and Nottingham City Council's employers work information
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
Most small one-person or two-person trades will struggle because this contract requires ownership or lease of expensive specialist agricultural plant (tractors, mowers, embankment equipment) worth tens of thousands of pounds, certified operators, and ability to mobilise multiple pieces of equipment. Solo electricians, cleaners, or plumbers cannot compete here.
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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