PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

AT1261 Luton Open Tender for Conservation Grass Cutting and Disposal Service

Luton Borough Council · published 16 Mar 2026. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release ID946cff84-461d-4b3a-8cb1-3c886877a83b-888657
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-b370f490-3ccd-4cfd-8d80-d65a195bf7ff
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-287888
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

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Award value
£501,058
award field
Tender value
£480,000
tender field
Procurement method
Open procedure
Category
services
CPV
77314000
Grounds maintenance services
Delivery
Not stated
LU1 2BQ
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Please note for those suppliers seeing this opportunity on Contracts Finder or Find a Tender Service - To obtain access to the Tender Documents you must first obtain registration , for free, on Luton's preferred e commerce platform Proactis Due North - Procontract.due-north.com \r \r AT1261 Luton Open Tender for Conservation Grass Cutting and Disposal Service\r \r Luton is a large and growing town around 30 miles to the north of London. Luton Council is a unitary Council covering an area of approximately 16.74 square miles (43.35 km2) and the current population of Luton is estimated at 216,000.\r The Council employs approximately 3,000 people based in a variety of locations such as offices, schools, nurseries, crematorium, parks pavilions, community centres, sports centres, day care, residential, police station, hospital, etc. These locations are located across the Borough.\r Service Requirement:\r \r The service is looking to award a contract, or contracts, to suitably qualified organisation(s) who have been successful in their bidding for the provision of conservation grass cutting and collection services, for specified Conservation Areas within the Borough of Luton. \r \r You should note that some of the Conservation Areas are inaccessible to large machinery and are also covered by Stewardship Agreements and National Classification. Standards that require the protection of flora and fauna which must be taken into account when undertaking this operation. You will be required to recycle all arising's as a result of the cutting in a process which will need to be approved by the Council. \r Please also note that the contract has a total of 35 individual contract areas, and we may award each site individually to different bidders or reserve the right not to award at all\r The tender will consist of 1 LOT of multiple locations of work

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release16 Mar 2026
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published2 Aug 2024
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published13 Oct 2024
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published13 Oct 2026
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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Published name only

Shaws of Stopsley Limited

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 16 Mar 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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