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Grounds Equipment Repair & Maintenance

Repair & MaintenanceCPV 50111000

Value£1.4m

Deadline8 Sept 2026

Published12 Aug 2026

RegionNationwide

Timeline

Published 12 Aug 202620 days leftCloses 8 Sept 2026

Who to contact

Commercial.Hub@bedford.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

£1.4mtotal contract value

median £130k

this tender£0£4.8m

This is a large award for Repair & Maintenance — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 15,278 valued Repair & Maintenance tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

Bedford Borough Council publishes Repair & Maintenance work continuously — 23 notices, roughly one every 70 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

30% of Bedford Borough Council’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

Bedford Borough Council requires an experienced and competent Grounds Maintenance Equipment and Plant Maintenance specialist to provide cover for the Councils internal workshop in relation to planned and unplanned works along with the ability to attend breakdowns

Requirements

What the notice asks for

Bedford Borough Council requires an experienced

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

What it takes to bid this

25–40 daysof bid-team effort

£17.1k–£27.4kat typical UK bid-team rates

Compressed window — start the same week

Typical UK bid effort for the £1m–£10m 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

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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