UK4 NRW Land Management General Site Maintenance Framework
- Buyer
- Natural Resources Wales
- Value
- £8,000,000
- Closes
- 4 December 2026
- Where
- Cardiff, Wales
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
Natural Resources Wales is setting up a framework agreement, worth about £8 million, for general upkeep of its land across Wales. It covers planned and reactive maintenance, repairs and installations at forest sites, recreation areas, visitor centres and nature reserves, split into 12 geographic areas.
What the buyer wants
• Repair and maintain forest furniture, waymarkers, signs, fences, gates, barriers, trails, culverts, car parks and access routes, including hand-tool ditch clearance and litter picking • Carry out motorised vegetation work such as mowing, strimming, brushcutting, clearing saw work and limited chainsaw cross-cutting for access • Operate machinery including excavators (up to 15 tonne), backhoe loaders and tracked or wheeled dumpers
Lots
- Area 1 North East Wales
- Area 2 North West – Ynys Mon, Pen Lleyn & Gwydyr
- Area 3 North West – Coed-y-Brenin
- Area 4 Mid Wales - North West
- Area 5 Mid Wales - North East
- Area 6 Mid Wales - South Cambrian Mountains
- Area 7 Mid Wales – South Irfon and Brecon Beacons
- Area 8 & 9 South West – Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire combined area
- Area 10 South West – Swansea / Neath
- Area 11South Central Wales
- Area 12 South East Wales
Requirements
What could rule a small business out: The notice does not state any turnover, insurance or accreditation thresholds, but the £8 million total value spread across 12 Wales-wide areas, the need to operate heavy plant and chainsaws, and the requirement to cover multiple geographic lots would likely rule out small businesses without their own machinery, teams and capacity to serve a large area.
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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.
Where to apply
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Questions about this tender? The official notice gives the buyer's contact.
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