For UK grounds maintenance, landscaping, arboriculture and grass-cutting contractors
GroundsBids reads the official UK tender feeds for you and sends one short email: the open grounds maintenance and landscaping contracts in your area, in plain English, plus a calendar of contracts coming up for renewal and who holds them now.
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Every issue is checked by a person each Monday before it goes out on Tuesday.
One buyer posts on Contracts Finder, another only on its own portal. One UK procurement professional counted 190+ different UK tender portals.
Free alerts run on CPV codes that buyers use inconsistently. One UK business owner describes their portal alerts as "99% of them irrelevant despite having the filters set".
Some contracts are only worth chasing if you know months ahead that they are ending. Few tools show you when the contract ends or who holds it now.
Quotes from public online discussions by UK buyers and suppliers. See the FAQ.
Tenders mapped to UK regions using buyer location, so you only see work you can reach.
Contracts ending in the next 6–12 months, with the current supplier and the award value, so you can contact the buyer early.
One or two sentences on what the job actually is, where it is, its value, the deadline and who can bid, so you can decide in seconds.
Pipeline and market-engagement notices published months before the tender, so you can talk to the buyer while the spec is still being written.
Where the same buyer has awarded similar work before, we show what it went for. That's a starting point when you price your bid. Wider coverage coming soon.
Closing soonest at the top, with the date and time from the official notice. Deadline reminder emails: coming soon.
Every item links to the official notice. We never sit between you and the buyer.
These are real notices from this week's feed, shown as they will appear in your email.
Shown here: South & East only (London, South East, East of England), to show how coverage by region works. Subscribers choose one macro-region or National.
Removing dead trees across Islington ahead of replanting (order 13682, 2026–27). Value not stated. Closes Tue 20 Oct at 14:42. This is a restricted process run through Islington's adam procurement portal, so it's for suppliers already registered there.
Peterborough City Council wants one contractor to look after around 40,000 council trees on highways, parks, cemeteries and school sites, covering pruning, crown work and felling. Up to £7m. Closes Fri 23 Oct at 14:00. Open procedure: any supplier can bid, but Arboricultural Association Approved Contractor status is required.
Year-round care of Chobham's cemetery, extension area and car park: weekly mowing and strimming around headstones from April to September, litter and floral-tribute clearance, hedges and leaf clearance. About £36,000. Closes Fri 23 Oct at 17:00. Open to any supplier, and a good size for a small local firm.
| Ends | Contract | Buyer | Region | Current supplier | Award value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Oct 2026 | Horticultural Services Contract Horticultural services across Fenland, held by Tivoli since November 2015 (5+5 years). The council has used a final 12-month extension while it prepares a new procurement. | Fenland District Council | East of England | Tivoli | £6,400,000 |
| 20 Nov 2026 | Arboricultural services - Tree works operations A small tree-works order at the Manchester Mansions estate. | London Borough of Islington | London | M Parkin Tree Specialists Ltd | £4,980 |
| 14 Dec 2026 | 2425-0208 Shearling Way Landscaping Improvements Landscaping a disused ball court and walkway on the Shearling Way estate, N7. A one-off project, not a recurring contract. | London Borough of Islington | London | Borras Construction Ltd | £300,000 |
| 23 Dec 2026 | Veteran Tree Services - Epping Forest Veteran-tree care and habitat management in Epping Forest, shared between 4 contractors. | City of London Corporation | London | John O'Conner (Grounds Maintenance) Ltd, Heartwood Tree Surgeons LTD, Ainsty Timber Marketing Limited, Aztech Tree Services LTD | £389,080 |
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From the UK government's official Find a Tender service and Contracts Finder, published under the Open Government Licence. We filter and summarise it. We don't change the official details. Always check the original notice before you bid.
We include notices from those nations that appear on Find a Tender. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI are separate portals. We don't fully cover them yet.
No. Some buyers publish only on their own portals. We cover the two central feeds, which is where most UK public-sector notices end up, and we say so openly.
From contract award notices that state a contract end date. Not every notice states one, and contracts can be extended, so treat the dates as a guide.
The feeds are filtered automatically and the summaries are drafted with software help. Then a person reviews every issue on Monday, checks the plain-English summaries and flags anything odd (for example, a notice with an obviously wrong date) before it goes out on Tuesday.
From public discussions in two Reddit communities, r/procurement and r/smallbusinessuk, in 2026. We quote them as one person's experience, not as statistics.
No. We help you find the right opportunities early. The bid is yours.
A group of neighbouring UK regions. South & East covers London, South East and East of England. Midlands & West covers East and West Midlands, South West and Wales. North, Scotland & NI covers North West, North East, Yorkshire & the Humber, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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