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YPO

YPO - 000881 Ground Maintenance Services

Agriculture & ForestryCPV 77000000
Value£500.0m
Deadline23 Feb 2029
Published30 Jan 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 30 Jan 2026902 days leftCloses 23 Feb 2029
Who to contact
Contracts Team
contracts@ypo.co.uk
+44 1924834834

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
£500.0mtotal contract value
median £150k
this tender£0£540.0m

This is a large award for Agriculture, Forestry & Horticulture — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 3,317 valued Agriculture, Forestry & Horticulture tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

YPO are looking for suppliers to be appointed onto a dynamic purchasing system (DPS) for the provision of grounds maintenance and associated services.

The DPS is designed to meet the needs of all public sector organisations which includes YPO’s internal requirements and any of YPO’s wholly owned associated or subsidiary companies.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market
YPO are looking for suppliers to be appointed onto a dynamic purchasing system (DPS) for the provision of grounds maintenance and associated services.
ESPO / YPO / NEPOFrameworks & routes to market
YPO - 000881 Ground Maintenance Services

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

4580 daysof bid-team effort
£30.8k£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £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

  • Hold at bidSSIP-family accreditation
  • Hold at bidWaste carrier / pesticide / arboricultural certifications as relevant
  • 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-061335
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
008551-2026
View the original notice on Find a Tender

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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