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Tree surgery contracts

UK public sector · 100 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
100
Last 12 months
Median contract
£44k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£47.6m
89 of 96 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
57
Suppliers
83

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most tree surgery contracts took 27% of them (27 of 100).
  • The median contract, £44k, is 37% below the median across landscaping & grounds contracts (£70k).
  • London Borough of Islington awarded 22% of the tree surgery contracts (22 of 100).

Who buys tree surgery

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

  1. 1London Borough of Islington22 contracts
  2. 2London Borough of Haringey6 contracts
  3. 3Somerset Council4 contracts
  4. 4Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council4 contracts
  5. 5Newry, Mourne and Down District Council3 contracts
  6. 6Exeter City Council2 contracts
  7. 7London Borough of Hillingdon2 contracts
  8. 8Leicestershire County Council2 contracts
  9. 9MHS Homes Group2 contracts
  10. 10Aspire Housing2 contracts

Top tree surgery contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Hickson Wardle Treecare7 contracts
  2. 2Liam McGough Tree Services7 contracts
  3. 3ARBORICARE LIMITED5 contracts
  4. 4CSG Usher's Ltd5 contracts
  5. 5Glendale4 contracts
  6. 6Longacre tree surgery limited4 contracts
  7. 7M Parkin Tree Specialists Ltd3 contracts
  8. 8Acorn Environmental Management Group3 contracts
  9. 9Gristwood & Toms Limited2 contracts
  10. 10Devon Tree Services2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

24Q4 2025*27Q1 202625Q2 202624Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 93 · Northern Ireland 3 · Scotland 3 · Wales 1

London15South East13South West13West Midlands7North West5East Midlands5East of England5North East4Scotland3Northern Ireland3Wales1UK-wide or not stated26

What is included

Planned, cyclical, reactive and emergency work on a buyer's trees outside woodland operations: pruning, crown reduction and lifting, pollarding, dismantling, felling and stump removal, and clearance of trees near overhead lines, usually under a term contract or framework with a schedule of rates.

  • Crown reduction, lifting and thinning
  • Pollarding and re-pollarding of street trees
  • Felling and dismantling of dead, decayed or dangerous trees
  • Stump removal and stump grinding after felling
  • Emergency and storm damage call-out
  • Highway, housing, parks, school, hospital and cemetery tree stock
  • Cutting back growth from buildings and maintaining clearances
  • Tree crews hired with climbing and mobile boom equipment
  • Tree works for insurance and subsidence mitigation
  • Tree works ahead of building or river works
  • Tree cutting and line clearance near overhead power lines and other utility networks

What is not included

  • Tree safety inspections and tree stock surveys (grd.arb.tree-safety-inspections)
  • Ash dieback and plant-health felling programmes (grd.arb.ash-dieback-and-diseased-tree-felling)
  • Tree pest and disease treatment (grd.arb.tree-pest-and-disease-control)
  • Tree planting (grd.arb.tree-planting-and-establishment)
  • Thinning and coppicing across woodland (grd.forest.woodland-management-works)
  • Timber harvesting and clearfell (grd.forest.timber-harvesting-and-extraction)
  • Minor tree work inside a multi-activity grounds contract (grd.maint.integrated-grounds-maintenance)
  • Scrub and vegetation clearance from sites, railway land and infrastructure (grd.veg.site-infrastructure-vegetation-clearance)
  • Tree work inside a multi-activity highway term maintenance contract (con.civils.highway-term-maintenance)

Often bought by the same buyers