# Grace digging contract

> Tender notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Tewkesbury Borough Council](/buyers/tewkesbury-borough-council/contract-awards)
- Tender value: £5,000
- Published: 28 November 2017
- Planned start: 1 January 2018
- Planned end: 4 December 2020
- Stage: open_tender
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 89b8a414-fdb9-4ef0-a887-4fd207612469-184428
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-f22e2e31-36cb-43ec-9595-7416566425b8

## Description

Tewkesbury Borough Council is a rural district authority based in the northern end of Gloucestershire and currently looks after two cemeteries in Bishops Cleeve and Tewkesbury\. These cemeteries are open to the public at all times and serve a wide community locally and from afar\. As part of the service to the community Tewkesbury Borough Council offers a grave digging service\. This service is offered to anyone who wants to bury or inter ashes at our two sites \(normally through undertakers\)\. Note the sites are mainly laid out for burials and this is our biggest part of the works\. The works consists of the mechanical and manual excavation of graves, interring of ashes preparation of the grave side and backfilling\.

## Related contract awards

- [Tree Maintenance - AWARD](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-aa992775-69ce-45e1-9dbb-14ffb2e0f7d4): Tewkesbury Borough Council
- [Emergency Accommodation Property Refurbishment - AWARD](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-bd6d8381-8650-4ddb-a28c-2342eb759234): Tewkesbury Borough Council
- [Gloucestershire Housing and Economic Needs Assessment - AWARD](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-b7588995-d071-4f0f-8d80-c24b91f08b56): Tewkesbury Borough Council

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/89b8a414-fdb9-4ef0-a887-4fd207612469-184428)