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Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO

274_26 Grounds Maintenance Machinery

AgricultureCPV 43325100
Value£23.3m
Deadline4 Sept 2026
Published4 Aug 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 4 Aug 2026ClosedCloses 4 Sept 2026
Who to contact
Place and Environment Procurement Team
tenders@espo.org

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

Refer to all instructions captured via https://www.eastmidstenders.org/

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£23.3mtotal contract value
median £80k
this tender£0£25.2m

This is a large award for Mining & Construction Machinery — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 1,291 valued Mining & Construction Machinery tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

ESPO is a public sector-owned professional buying organisation offering a comprehensive range of procurement services, including access to over 100 free-to-access framework solutions for the wider public sector.

We are establishing a framework for the supply of grounds maintenance machinery, including spare parts and maintenance services.

The Framework is divided into 9 lots.

Please refer to the tender documents for any further details (including further details on each of the lots) - the closing date for submission of Tenders is 12:00 (12 noon / 12pm) on 04 September 2026.

To tender (please proceed to step (e) if an expression of interest has already been completed): (a) Go to https://www.eastmidstenders.org/ (b) Register (if not already registered on ProContract); (c) Search for tender opportunity 274_26 (via "View Opportunities" from the EastMidsTenders Portal); (d) Express an interest; (e) Download the tender documents (from the ProContract Activity summary screen).

Any questions or clarifications relating to this tender opportunity should be submitted to ESPO as a message on the eProcurement Portal, once an Expression of interest has been completed.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

We are establishing a framework for

We are establishing a framework for the supply of grounds maintenance machinery, including spare parts and maintenance services.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

ESPO / YPO / NEPOFrameworks & routes to market
Please note, this is a Pipeline notice only for ESPO contracts that are forecast to be re-procured or new procurement projects that are expected to be undertaken.

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.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-051d80
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
073573-2026
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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