Grounds Maintenance Contracts and Tenders

Search live procurement portals for open grounds maintenance notices, or move earlier by tracking buyers before a tender goes live. On Stotles you can read buyer documents and forward plans for parish, town council and housing association grounds contracts, then build a bid once the specification is published. Platform-wide, Stotles currently tracks 2,198 open tenders across every sector, grounds maintenance included.

Most contracts bundle grass cutting, hedge and tree pruning, weed control and playing field or park upkeep for one site or a whole parish. Many extend further, into cemetery grounds, litter picking, winter gritting and snow or ice clearing, and sports pitch maintenance for schools and universities. A single contract can run to several lots split by geography or service type.

Parish and town councils issue the largest share of notices, alongside housing associations maintaining communal land, NHS trusts and hospital estates, universities and academy trusts, and heritage bodies caring for historic sites and gardens. Water companies and national park authorities also let grounds and verge contracts for car parks and flood assets.

The core code is 77314000 (Grounds maintenance services), alongside 77313000 (Parks maintenance services), 77340000 (Tree pruning and hedge trimming) and 77310000 (Planting and maintenance services of green areas). Highway verge work often carries 45233229 (Verge maintenance work) instead. Notices commonly carry several of these together, since one contract spans mowing, hedges and planted areas.

Yes. Many councils, housing associations and NHS bodies let grounds maintenance through multi-year framework agreements or dynamic purchasing systems, calling off individual sites or service areas without a fresh tender each time. Others run standalone term contracts of three to five years for a single site, park or parish.