Grass Tenders and Contracts

Most notices bundle grass cutting with related mowing-round work: verge cutting alongside footpaths and highways, sports-pitch and playing-field mowing, and cemetery or amenity-area grass maintenance. Contracts range from a single parish's mowing round to multi-year framework agreements covering a whole county's verges.

Stotles brings together grass cutting tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Grass cutting usually sits inside wider grounds maintenance contracts, and mowers are bought by mini-competition under the NEPO grounds equipment framework.

Grass cutting tenders are scored on price, plant and crew capacity, cutting schedules, safety record and quality monitoring. Contracts are often split into sections by area, so contractors can bid where they operate.

Grass cutting on highways needs traffic management competence such as Chapter 8 training, and operators using herbicides need a pesticide certificate of competence. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Cutting contracts typically run for several years, sometimes split into sections by area, while ride-on mowers are often bought by mini-competition under a NEPO framework for grounds equipment. Parish and town councils, county and district councils, housing associations, prisons, fire and rescue services and schools are the recurring buyers.

Read environment and open space strategies, grounds and highways maintenance plans, capital schemes and expiry dates for existing contracts, which show grass work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Grass cutting maps to CPV 77314000 (Grounds maintenance services), and buyers often add 77314100 (Grassing services) alongside it on notices that are specifically about mowing and turf work rather than the wider grounds bundle.