Awarded contract

Equine Forage

Details

Supplier(s)
R F Fielding Hay & Straw Limited
Value
£143,000
Duration
3 years
Topic
Straw and forage
Published
13 October 2025

Tender description

Contract for the supply and delivery of equine forage, including hay, haylage and spring barley straw. Delivery to the GMP Mounted Unit located at Hough End. The main product supplied under this contract will be hay, which must be supplied from known fields in small rectangular bales. Bales should be consistent in type and condition and be meadow and timothy hay, suitable for feeding horses in slow work. Hay should be free from mould, dust, poor quality grasses and plants poisonous to horses including ragwort. No volumes or values are guaranteed, but an estimated number of bales of hay per year is 4000. ## Contract award

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published13 October 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date13 October 2025
  3. Next: Contract expiry date30 September 2028in 2 years

About the buyer

The Greater Manchester Combined Authority is a local government body. Education, work and skills activity is commissioned through the authority's own Flexible Procurement System. Councils across Greater Manchester use the same system to commission apprenticeships.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority's contract awards have been in IT services, business services and research and development.

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