Built for UK grounds-maintenance contractors

Know what a tender will really cost before you bid.

GroundsCost turns tender packs into a structured workload, exposes costly unknowns and builds a transparent estimate around your own crews, machinery and rates.

No black-box bid price. You control every commercial assumption.
Example analysis

Northfield Grounds Contract 2027–30

68%
Estimate readiness
7 items still need review before pricing is defensible.
High impactShrub-bed quantities not supplied
Monthly maintenance required, but no measurable area found.
CheckPotential TUPE exposure
Referenced in the pack; employee data not included.
Matched91% of operations self-deliverable
One specialist operation likely requires hire or subcontract.
Tender pack → operational estimate

Price the work you were actually asked to deliver.

The difficult part of a grounds tender is not multiplying a day rate. It is finding every task, frequency, hidden obligation, resource requirement and missing quantity scattered across the documents.

01

Read the whole pack

Specifications, ITTs, pricing sheets and supporting documents are interpreted together and converted into a structured scope.

02

Expose the unknowns

Missing measurements, conflicting clauses, TUPE, competencies and scope risks are surfaced before they disappear into your price.

03

Apply your costs

Labour, plant, travel, materials, subcontractors, overhead and margin use transparent editable calculations — not an AI-generated guess.

Not this

Another tender summariser

  • Generic document summary
  • Confident-looking invented quantities
  • Opaque “recommended bid” figure
  • No link between scope and operational resource
GroundsCost

A commercial estimating assistant

  • Normalised grounds-maintenance workload
  • Known / assumed / unknown quantities
  • Capability and subcontract gaps
  • Editable commercial scenarios built from your costs
Worked example

See the problems before they become your margin.

Illustrative data below shows the proposed output. It does not represent a real buyer or contractor.

GroundsCost / Northfield Grounds Contract / Overview
Contract estimate£480k
Price weighting60%
Sites14
Readiness68%
High commercial impact: shrub-bed maintenance is monthly but the tender pack provides no area.
Potential specification conflict: general clause requires arisings removal; one site permits mulch mowing.
Capability match: current company profile covers 91% of extracted operations.
OperationQuantityFrequencyConfidence
Amenity grass — ride-on31,200 m²18Known
Formal hedge trim560 lm2Known
Shrub-bed maintenance—MonthlyUnknown
Validation offer

Start free. Pay only when you want the full estimate.

Launch pricing is deliberately simple. We are testing whether the analysis is valuable before building a large software platform.

Tender health check
Free

Find the obvious risks before you commit hours to a bid.

Headline tender summary
Top compliance flags
First five commercial uncertainties
Full GroundsCost estimate
£99

One tender. Full scope, operational and commercial analysis.

Complete workload extraction
Uncertainty & risk register
Labour, plant, travel and material model
Capability-gap review
Commercial scenarios and sensitivity
Editable estimate workbook + commercial review
Early-access validation: GroundsCost is not yet accepting live tender uploads through this page. Early-access signups are used to measure demand and recruit pilot users. No payment is taken here.

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See what is measurable, what is assumed and what still needs checking before you commit to the bid.