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Newcastle City Council

009525 - NECF LA5 Tree Planting Framework

ConstructionCPV 45112700
Value£400k
Deadline10 Sept 2026
Published14 Aug 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 14 Aug 202622 days leftCloses 10 Sept 2026
Who to contact
corporate.procurement.team@newcastle.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£400ktotal contract value
median £158k
this tender£0£6.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Construction band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 64,002 valued Construction tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The North East Community Forest (NECF) covers Newcastle, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland and the urban areas of County Durham.

The programme supports the creation of high-quality environments, community participation, education, biodiversity, climate resilience, healthy living and local economic benefit.

This Lot 1 specification relates to School Planting.

It covers school planting on both council-owned school land and non-council school land, including academies, trusts and privately owned schools where applicable.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

The programme supports the creation of high-quality environments, community participation, education, biodiversity, climate resilience, healthy living and local economic benefit.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

What it takes to bid this

1220 daysof bid-team effort
£8.2k£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £100k–£1m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidSSIP-family accreditation (CHAS / Constructionline)
  • Hold at bidISO 45001 / H&S policy & CDM competence
  • Show at bidNamed site & contract managers with CVs
  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e4c3
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
077736-2026
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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