Contract

Equine Forage

  • Greater Manchester Combined Authority

UK7: Contract details notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-064565

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-05add2

Published 13 October 2025, 9:32am



Scope

Reference

A1155

Description

Contract for the supply and delivery of equine forage, including hay, haylage and spring barley straw. Delivery to the GMP Mounted Unit located at Hough End.

The main product supplied under this contract will be hay, which must be supplied from known fields in small rectangular bales. Bales should be consistent in type and condition and be meadow and timothy hay, suitable for feeding horses in slow work. Hay should be free from mould, dust, poor quality grasses and plants poisonous to horses including ragwort.

No volumes or values are guaranteed, but an estimated number of bales of hay per year is 4000.


Contract 1

Supplier

Contract value

  • £143,000 excluding VAT
  • £171,600 including VAT

Below the relevant threshold

Date signed

8 September 2025

Contract dates

  • 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2028
  • Possible extension to 30 September 2030
  • 5 years

Description of possible extension:

2 years in full or 1+1

Main procurement category

Goods

CPV classifications

  • 03114000 - Straw and forage

Contract locations

  • UKD3 - Greater Manchester

Procedure

Procedure type

Below threshold - limited competition


Supplier

R F Fielding Hay & Straw Limited

Dean Farm, King Street

Woodford

SK7 1RL

United Kingdom

Telephone: 01625 522249

Email: james@rffielding.com

Region: UKD35 - Greater Manchester South East

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): Yes

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

Contract 1


Contracting authority

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PXBN-3793-LCTQ

56 Oxford Street

Manchester

M1 6EU

United Kingdom

Telephone: 01618561140

Email: procurement@gmp.police.uk

Website: http://www.gmp.police.uk

Region: UKD33 - Manchester

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government