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Grounds maintenance contracts

UK public sector · 173 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
173
Last 12 months
Median contract
£152k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£256m
166 of 172 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
142
Suppliers
131

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most grounds maintenance contracts took 24% of them (41 of 173).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 64% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £152k, is 2.2 times the median across landscaping & grounds contracts (£70k).
  • South East had the most contracts: 24, or 14% of the total.

Who buys grounds maintenance

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Homes England8 contracts
  2. 2Historic Environment Scotland6 contracts
  3. 3RYKNELD HOMES LIMITED3 contracts
  4. 4Anchor Hanover Group3 contracts
  5. 5Rooftop Housing Group2 contracts
  6. 6Seaford Town Council2 contracts
  7. 7Brighton & Hove City Council2 contracts
  8. 8Department for Communities2 contracts
  9. 9The Consortium Academy Trust2 contracts
  10. 10Arbour Housing Limited2 contracts

Top grounds maintenance contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Countrywide Grounds Maintenance12 contracts
  2. 2idverde10 contracts
  3. 3Glendale9 contracts
  4. 4Nurture Landscapes8 contracts
  5. 5Anti-Graffiti Systems Ltd4 contracts
  6. 6Krinkels UK Ltd3 contracts
  7. 7Mark Walker (Grounds Maintenance) Ltd3 contracts
  8. 8John O'Conner Grounds Maintenance3 contracts
  9. 9PGSD Limited3 contracts
  10. 10DRIVEOUT SITE SERVICES LIMITED3 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

27Q4 2025*73Q1 202646Q2 202626Q3 20261Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 137 · Scotland 20 · Wales 11 · Northern Ireland 5

South East24Yorkshire and The Humber21Scotland20West Midlands16South West14East Midlands13North East12London12East of England10Wales10North West8Northern Ireland5UK-wide or not stated8

What is included

Multi-activity care of the green and open parts of an estate under one term contract: grass cutting, hedges, shrub and rose beds, weeding, leaf and litter clearance, and often minor tree and hard-surface work, to a specification with frequencies or outcome standards.

  • Whole-estate grounds maintenance of housing land, schools, colleges, hospitals, police, fire, prison, utility, research and heritage estates
  • Grounds maintenance of parks, open spaces, recreation grounds, verges and highway gardens when bought as maintenance only
  • Cyclical and reactive grounds work on hard and soft landscaped areas
  • Grounds maintenance DPSs, frameworks and PINs named only as grounds maintenance
  • Garden maintenance of overseas diplomatic residences and compounds
  • Grounds maintenance component of a joint streetscene, environmental services or FM contract
  • Gritting included in a single grounds and winter maintenance contract with no separate lot
  • Vegetation upkeep of SuDS features, swales and balancing ponds on adopted open space

What is not included

  • A programme for grass cutting alone (see Grass cutting)
  • Hedge cutting or a horticulture lot bought on its own (see Hedge cutting and shrub bed maintenance)
  • Litter picking bought as a separate element (see Litter picking in parks and grounds)
  • Separately bought or lotted gritting and snow clearance (see Gritting and snow clearance)
  • Cemetery and churchyard grounds lots (see Cemetery and churchyard maintenance)
  • Parks contracts that add site management, staffing, bookings or capital improvement (see Parks management contract)
  • Playing pitch lots (see Sports pitch maintenance)
  • Landscape establishment and aftercare after a capital scheme (see Soft landscaping, planting and landscape aftercare)
  • Tree works lots (see Tree surgery)
  • Hard surface weed control lots (see Weed control of hard surfaces and highways)
  • Street cleansing components (see Waste & Environment)
  • Communal cleaning and cleaning-led estate services (see Communal area cleaning for housing)
  • Cleaning-led soft FM and integrated FM contracts: cln.ifm.soft-fm-bundle; cln.ifm.total-integrated-fm

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