Landscaping Contracts and Tenders

Landscaping procurement covers landscape maintenance and grounds care for housing estates, parks, council buildings and roadside verges, hard and soft landscaping works, tree and hedge work, planting, grass management and play area installation. Buyers let it as stand-alone landscaping contracts or bundle it with grounds maintenance and arboriculture.

Stotles brings together landscaping 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. Parish and town council landscaping jobs often appear only on Contracts Finder, and Irish councils publish landscape maintenance frameworks on Ireland's eTenders.

Landscaping tenders are scored on price alongside a maintenance schedule, so bids show the seasonal programme, the crews and machinery you will use, how you handle waste and biodiversity, and how you respond to complaints. Housing associations and councils often let a landscape maintenance contract for several years, so the incumbent's expiry date is the best signal of when to bid.

Spraying weed control needs a certificate of competence for pesticide use, and tree and hedge work needs competent, certified operatives working safely at height. 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.

Mostly as stand-alone tenders for a site or estate, with councils also running multi-party frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems for grounds maintenance, specialist countryside and arboricultural works. Hard landscaping and play areas are often tendered as separate works packages.

Landscaping runs through dedicated frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems as well as open tenders. Knowsley Council operates a Dynamic Purchasing System for Landscape Providers, and Dublin City Council's 2026 to 2030 Multi-Party Framework for Landscape Maintenance Services splits the work across eight lots. Both are routes a contractor can join ahead of any single tender.

Housing associations buy landscape maintenance for their estates, councils buy it for parks, verges and buildings, and parish and town councils tender gardening and hard landscaping jobs. Academy trusts, police authorities, transport bodies and Irish councils also tender landscaping.

Landscape maintenance contracts most often run for two to three years, with some going to five. Works contracts for a single site, such as a play area or hard landscaping job, are over in months.

Track the expiry dates of existing grounds and landscape contracts and preliminary market engagement notices, which show landscaping 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.

The core codes are 77314000 (Grounds maintenance services), 45112700 (Landscaping work) and 77310000 (Planting and maintenance services of green areas). Tree and hedge work carries 77340000 (Tree pruning and hedge trimming) and 77211500 (Tree-maintenance services).