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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 9 hours ago Contract notice

Tree and Woodland Maintenance - Arboriculture Services

Open United Kingdom Agriculture, farming & fishing

Buyer Bristol City Council

30 days left

Key facts

Closes
12:00 (UTC)
Estimated value
€6.7M
€6,700,072 · converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure Anyone may submit a bid, in one step, with no pre-selection. Full entry
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Summary

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Bristol City Council is seeking suppliers to take part in a soft market testing exercise for a potential contract covering arboricultural tree maintenance services. The Council wants insight into the practicality, capacity, feasibility and deliverability of this future commission. Participants will help refine the specification and may express an interest in bidding. Information gathered will inform the development of a future Arboricultural Maintenance of Trees contract if the Council decides to proceed with procurement.

Timing

31 days from publication to deadline. Usual length in United Kingdom: 30 days. Usual length

  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline
  4. Awarded pending
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Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, above the EU threshold) give a median of 30 days, half of them between 26 and 36 days, based on 2,048 notices of the last two years.

Description

This project is to appoint a specialist arboricultural contractor to provide comprehensive tree and woodland maintenance services across Bristol City Council's tree stock and woodland assets. The contract covers planned and reactive arboricultural operations including tree inspections, pruning, crown management, pollarding, felling, stump treatment, epicormic growth removal, planting, establishment and aftercare of new trees, and the maintenance of young and mature tree populations. The service is intended to ensure public safety, protect and enhance the council's tree assets, support biodiversity and ecological value, maintain highways and public spaces, comply with relevant arboricultural standards and legislation, and deliver the sustainable long-term management of the city's urban forest and woodland estate between 2027 and 2032.

Change history

Every time an official source republished this notice with different content. We watch every source we index, including regional copies of the same notice.

  1. Read before bidding
    Status
    Was: Upcoming
    Now: Open
    Main CPV code
    Was: 77100000
    Now: 03400000
    Estimated value
    Was: €9,106,090
    Now: €6,700,072 -26%
    Submission deadline
    not stated
    Now: November 27, 2026, 12:00
    Scope and criteria
    The description was expanded. Re-read it before you bid.
    Procedure
    not stated
    Now: Open procedure
    Estimated value
    Was: €7,798,000
    Now: €5,616,000 -28%
  2. Status
    Was: Open
    Now: Upcoming
  3. Status
    Was: Upcoming
    Now: Open

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2 of 6 answered from the register

Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.

  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €6.7M.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Agriculture, farming & fishing.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    30 days left, 23 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €35,010 and €131,703.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 1,194 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

Official source

Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

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Last verified against Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) 9 hours ago

Documents on Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) (English)

Market

Agriculture, farming & fishing in United Kingdom

median award in this market
€69,353
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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 11 awards for Agriculture, farming & fishing in United Kingdom.

This notice
€6.7M
Median award
€69,353
Middle half of past awards
€35,010 to €131,703

The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

Market context

Larger than 98% of the open notices in Agriculture, farming & fishing across Europe.

open now in Agriculture, farming & fishing
960
median open notice
€64,146

The buyer in figures

Bristol City Council

notices in the register
1,194
awards
1,172
awarded in total
€32.9M

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
766
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
5%
of its calls state an estimated value
100%

Based on 1,095 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

The buyer

Full buyer profile

Bristol City Council

United Kingdom

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Agriculture, farming & fishing - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
MGM Timber (Scotland) Ltd 1 €1.7M Jun 2026
Campbells Prime Meat Ltd 1 €233,263 Feb 2026
Premier Produce Scotland Ltd 1 €160,485 Jan 2026
Withheld for security reasons 1 €102,921 Jun 2026
Dole Ltd T/AS Mark Murphy 1 €81,353 Sep 2026

Based on 15 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

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