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Arboricultural Maintenance & Tree Planting/Post Planting Management Framework

London Borough of Hackney

This public procurement record has 2 releases in its history.

Award

24 Aug 2026 at 13:46

UK6 - Contract Award Notice
Tender

04 Jul 2025 at 08:23

UK4 - Tender Notice
Summary of the contracting process

The London Borough of Hackney procured a four-year, multi-supplier framework for arboricultural services. The work covers tree maintenance, tree pruning and hedge trimming, tree cutting and clearing, tree planting, and post-planting care. It is intended for Hackney’s streets, housing estates, parks and cemeteries, with delivery across Hackney, London. The requirement is primarily tree-maintenance services, including ongoing management of trees and newly planted trees. The framework is arranged to provide flexible and resilient access to arboricultural contractors for the council’s operational sites. It suits businesses providing practical tree surgery, maintenance, planting and aftercare services, rather than suppliers offering only general landscaping or unrelated grounds-maintenance work.

The procurement is complete and was awarded on 5 January 2026 to M. Parkin Tree Specialists Limited, C S G (Ushers) Limited, Glendale Countryside Limited and Foremost Tree Surgeons Limited. It covers one lot, with an estimated value of £2,400,000 excluding VAT and £2,900,000 including VAT. The framework contract period runs from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2030. Hackney used a two-stage competitive flexible procedure under the selective method: a Procurement Selection Questionnaire followed by an Invitation to Tender. Selection assessed eligibility, financial standing and technical capacity. Tenders were evaluated 40% on schedule-of-rates pricing and 60% on quality method statements. Assessment summaries were sent on 13 January 2026, with the standstill period ending on 3 September 2026.

This award demonstrates sustained council demand for arboricultural maintenance, planting and post-planting management across a dense urban estate. A credible future competitor would need operational capability in tree surgery and maintenance, pruning, cutting, clearance, planting and the establishment care of new trees. It would also need to demonstrate financial standing and sufficient technical capacity at selection stage, then produce clear, practical quality method statements. Experience of delivering safely across streets, housing estates, parks and cemeteries would be directly relevant. The four successful suppliers include three SMEs and one large business, showing that the requirement can be addressed by specialist smaller contractors as well as larger multi-site service providers. Competitors should also be able to price repeatable work through a schedule of rates.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Arboricultural Maintenance & Tree Planting/Post Planting Management Framework

Notice Description

A four-year framework contract to deliver arboricultural maintenance, tree planting, and post-planting care across Hackney's streets, estates, parks, and cemeteries. Due to the system limitations the correct dates were not permitted by the system because this procurement was conducted in the past. So dates answered for the following questions on the form were answered so that this notice could be published. The correct dates for the following questions are as follows; Award decision date: 05 Jan 2026 Date assessment summaries were sent to tenderers: 13 Jan 2026 Standstill period End: 23 Jan 2026 Earliest date the contract will be signed: 31 Dec 2025

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-0558b4
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/080365-2026
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK6 - Contract Award Notice
Procurement Type
Framework
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Selective
Procurement Method Details
Competitive flexible procedure
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Large, SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

77 - Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services

CPV Codes

77211300 - Tree-clearing services

77211400 - Tree-cutting services

77211500 - Tree-maintenance services

77211600 - Tree seeding

77340000 - Tree pruning and hedge trimming

77341000 - Tree pruning

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£2,400,000 £1M-£10M
Lots Value
£2,400,000 £1M-£10M
Awards Value
£2,400,000 £1M-£10M
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
24 Aug 20262 days ago
Submission Deadline
29 Jul 2025Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
5 Jan 20267 months ago
Contract Period
4 Sep 2026 - 31 Mar 2030 3-4 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Complete
Awards Status
Pending
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
London Borough of Hackney
Contact Name
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Contact Email
Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
LONDON
Postcode
E8 1DY
Postcode Area
East London
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLI London
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLI4 Inner London - East
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLI41 Hackney and Newham
Delivery Location
Not specified
Local Authority
Hackney
Electoral Ward
Hackney Central
Westminster Constituency
Hackney South and Shoreditch

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
4
Supplier Names

C S G (USHERS) LIMITED

FOREMOST TREE SURGEONS LIMITED

GLENDALE COUNTRYSIDE LIMITED

M. PARKIN TREE SPECIALISTS LIMITED

Further Information

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