Find a TenderPlanned procurementPipeline notice
Published 31 Mar 2026, 11:35 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Cleaning and Grounds Maintenance

Authority: London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham (Local council)

Services
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 10 yrsends 30 Jun 2037 · starts 1 Jul 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Council (the “Council”) is seeking a suitably qualified and experienced supplier to deliver a contract for Cleaning and Grounds Maintenance, for which detailed requirements are due to be developed for publication when the procurement process goes live. At the time of this notice, the Council expects the main procurement category to be for Services. This notice is published in accordance with the requirements of the Procurement Act 2023 but must not be considered as confirmation that any future procurement opportunity will be forthcoming as a result, or in the way publicised herein. The details included in this notice remain subject to change as the Council's procurement strategy develops.

For clarity, the Council currently anticipates a potential contract term of up to 10 years; however, the precise length, structure, phasing, and commercial approach for any future contract are still under active consideration. As such, all information regarding contract duration remains indicative only and may be revised prior to any formal procurement being launched.

CPV: Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services · Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work · Cleaning and sanitation services · Cleaning services · Construction work · Excavating and earthmoving work · Graffiti removal services · Grassing services · Grounds maintenance services · Grounds-maintenance equipment · Horticultural services · Landscaping work for playgrounds · +15 more

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham buys Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731), and who usually turns up

London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Planting and maintenance services of green areas (CPV 7731) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerLondon Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 30 of 50 known-size awards · market: CPV 7731 · Greater London, n=37
60%73%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 30 of 41 known-location awards · market: CPV 7731 · Greater London, n=48
73%17%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 10 decided notices · market: CPV 7731 · Greater London, n=16
59 days28 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 59 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 41 of 83 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7731 · Greater London, n=47
49%23%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer20 lots with bid counts · all categories
35% had one bid
The market33 lots with bid counts · CPV 7731 · Greater London
6% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid35% / 6%
Buyer: 7 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
2–325% / 15%
Buyer: 5 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
4–65% / 33%
Buyer: 1 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 11 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
7+35% / 45%
Buyer: 7 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 15 of 33 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer11 lots with estimate and award · all categories
27% below estimate
The market30 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7731 · Greater London
67% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate27% / 67%
Buyer: 3 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 20 of 30 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%36% / 7%
Buyer: 4 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 2 of 30 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate36% / 27%
Buyer: 4 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 8 of 30 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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What past awards tell you about each lot.

See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.

No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 4511120 monthsEstimate not published

This lot is listed as CPV 4511. The table above uses the notice category.

Expected competition
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How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 10 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet10% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 10 similar lots
1 bid10%
1 of 10 similar past lots received 1 bid (10%).
2–330%
3 of 10 similar past lots received 2–3 (30%).
4–650%
5 of 10 similar past lots received 4–6 (50%).
7+10%
1 of 10 similar past lots received 7+ (10%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4.5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

Who could compete for this lot?

Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.

None is confirmed as a bidder.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
  • Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
31 Mar 2026, 11:35 BST
Last source update
31 Mar 2026, 11:35 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-029539
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural servicesBuilding demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving workCleaning and sanitation servicesCleaning servicesConstruction workExcavating and earthmoving workGraffiti removal servicesGrassing servicesGrounds maintenance servicesGrounds-maintenance equipment
+17 moreHorticultural servicesLandscaping work for playgrounds
Delivery area
London (UKI33)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0678d2 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

31 Mar 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published209 days ago
    31 Mar 2026, 11:35 BST
  2. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 5 days
    1 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 246 days
    1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    31 Mar 2026, 11:35 BST
    UK1

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

London Borough of Hammersmith and Fuham

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PHTW-6333-BQGD Town Hall, king street, London, London, W6 9JUContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender