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Soft Market Testing – Arboriculture Services for Wandsworth Borough Council and the London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £12,800,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 10 Apr 2025
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
Both Wandsworth Borough Council and the London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames Arboriculture Maintenance Services contracts are due to expire on 31 March 2026 and require timely retendering, with tendering commencing in early June 2025. The contracts relate to Arboriculture Services which include, but are not limited to: Tree Planting, Tree Pruning, Tree Felling, Young Tree Maintenance, Stump Grinding, Basal Growth, Climbing Tree Inspections and Emergency Works. The contracts will be for four years and with the option to extend each of the contract lots for up to a further four-year term. In Wandsworth, the total annual value of these contracts is circa £1 million. The London Borough of Richmond annual contract value is circa £600,000. The Councils currently intend to approach the market with a multi-lot tender for each borough and the aim of this exercise is for the Councils to gain a better understanding of how the supply market operates in relation to the provision of Arboriculture Services. Further details are provided in the attached questionnaire for your response by 23 April 2025. The questionnaire is available on the Atamis e-sourcing portal accessible at https://lb-wandsworth.my.salesforce-sites.com/?SearchType=Projects. The tender will be issued in June 2025.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 77211500
04/ History
Releases of this notice
3 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 10 Apr 2025Planning notice
Planning notice published 10 April 2025.
Release 014364-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 7 Jan 2026Notice
Notice published 7 January 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 001072-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 30 Jan 2026Notice
Notice published 30 January 2026. The source does not state what changed.
Release 008362-2026
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05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.
06/ Questions
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07/ Tender hubs
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08/ Related
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-0500c8
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Last verified
- Mon 6 Apr 2026, 17:28 BST
- Read at
- Thu 29 Oct 2026, 22:09 GMT
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