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MBC Invitation To Tender - Cobtree Manor Park Play Area Refurbishment
Published 20 Oct 2025
20 Oct 2025
Closed 15 Dec 2025
- Primary CPV
-
43325000 *
Park and playground equipment
- Location
- 🇬🇧 Mid Kent, South East
- Value
- £600,000
- Contract
-
10 months Duration
26/01/2026 30/11/2026
- Contract Types
-
43 *Mining, quarrying & construction equipme...Full CPV Breakdown
- SME suitable
- Not stated
Publisher Address
Maidstone House, King Street, Maidstone, ME15 6JQ, United Kingdom · UKJ45
Contact
Award Criteria
- Quality (100%)
Related tenders
Maidstone Borough Council
All notices from this publisher Same CPV code
43325000 *
All notices with this CPV code
Reference: 988198243
Cobtree Manor Park is managed as a public open space by the Cobtree Manor Estate Charity
Trust. The land is owned by The Cobtree Charity Trust Limited. The two charities work in
partnership with Maidstone Borough Council to manage the land and adjacent estate on a
1,000 year lease to MBC.
The current play area was installed in 2013 to encourage greater family use of the park. The
playspace has met the aims of that project and the site is now very popular with young families
visiting the play facilities, park and café.
In recent years a number of pieces of play equipment have been removed as they reached the
end of their lifespan and the play opportunities have been reduced. The remaining equipment
offers little opportunity for children with additional needs.
For the park to remain a popular outdoor destination for Maidstone and local residents, the
play facilities require replacing. The Trust have approved the complete replacement of the play
area with the desire to provide an inclusive playspace for children to play together.
Maidstone Borough Council is looking to appoint a provider with a proven record of designing,
supplying and installing robust play facilities suitable for an unsupervised public open space
environment.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/tenders/UK-UK-Maidstone:-Park-and-playground-equipment./872E933EK9
To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/respond/872E933EK9
Full CPV breakdown
- 43325000 — Park and playground equipment (primary)
Notice details
- Buyer type
- Local authority
- Competition
- Open competition (any supplier can bid)
- Contract type
- Works
- Procurement method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Main category
- Works
- Above threshold
- No
- Legal basis
- UKPGA 2023/54
- Notice status
- Active
- Submission method
- https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/
- Enquiries close
- 1 Dec 2025
- Language
- EN
- Published
- 20 Oct 2025 12:05
- Deadline
- 15 Dec 2025 12:00
- OCID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05cfa0
- Notice ID
- 988198243
Full notice record
44 detailsEverything the publisher included in this notice, organised by section.
Organisations
| Name | Maidstone Borough Council |
| Address › Street | Maidstone House, King Street |
| Address › Town / city | Maidstone |
| Address › Postcode | ME15 6JQ |
| Address › Country | GB |
| Address › Country | United Kingdom |
| Address › Region (NUTS) | UKJ45 |
| Contact › Name | James Hudson-Austin |
| Contact › Email | procurement@tunbridgewells.gov.uk |
| Contact › Telephone | 01892554427 |
| Role | buyer |
| Classification › Description | Public authority - sub-central government |
Buyer
| Name | Maidstone Borough Council |
Tender
| Title | MBC Invitation To Tender - Cobtree Manor Park Play Area Refurbishment |
| Status | active |
| Item › CPV › CPV 1 › Description | Park and playground equipment |
| Item › CPV › CPV 2 › Description | Landscaping work for parks |
| Value › Value incl. VAT | £720,000 |
| Value › Value | £600,000 |
| Value › Currency | GBP |
| Procedure type | open |
| Procedure | Below threshold - open competition |
| Category | works |
| Above threshold | No |
| How to submit | https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/ |
| Submission Terms › Electronic submission | allowed |
| Bidding period › End | 15 Dec 2025 |
| Questions period › End | 1 Dec 2025 |
| Lot › Status | active |
| Lot › Value › Value incl. VAT | £720,000 |
| Lot › Value › Value | £600,000 |
| Lot › Value › Currency | GBP |
| Lot › Award criteria › Criterion › Type | quality |
| Lot › Award criteria › Criterion › Name | Quality |
| Lot › Award criteria › Criterion › Weighting › Weight | 100 |
| Lot › Award criteria › Criterion › Weighting › Weight type | Percentage exact |
| Lot › Suitable for › SMEs | Yes |
| Lot › Suitable for › VCSEs | Yes |
| Lot › Contract period › Start | 26 Jan 2026 |
| Lot › Contract period › End | 30 Nov 2026 |
| Document › Document type | Tender notice |
| Document › Description | Tender notice on Find a Tender |
| Document › Link | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/066656-2025 |
| Document › Published | 20 Oct 2025 |