Awarded contract

Grounds Maintenance Tractor and Accessories

Details

Value
£18,000
Duration
8 months
Topic
Tractors
Published
3 September 2026

Tender description

Supply of a John Deere X948 Signature Series tractor, including rear receiver hitch kit and drawbar/ball mount accessories, for use by the Trust's estates and grounds maintenance teams. The equipment supports the Trust in maintaining external grounds and landscaped areas, enabling a range of grounds maintenance activities through the use of specialist attachments and towing capability. The purchase helps ensure the efficient upkeep of the Trust's estate and outdoor environments. ## Contract award

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published3 September 2026
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date3 September 2026
  3. Next: Contract expiry date21 April 2027in 7 months

About the buyer

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS trust delivering hospital and community services, buying through its own procurement team. Tenders above threshold are advertised on Find a Tender. Much of this procurement flows through framework agreements and the Crown Commercial Service. The Trust hosts the East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub. Procurement specialists, market experts and data analysts staff the hub for NHS organisations region-wide. Joint consortia contracts cover waste, enteral feeding and laundry services with neighbouring trusts.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, repair and maintenance and software and information systems.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 16700000 · Tractors

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