East Staffordshire Borough Council is inviting expressions of interest from suppliers wanting to provide the authority with summer and winter bedding plants on a three-year contract from 2012.
The council wants 247,000 plants over summer and winter as well as 450 hanging baskets, all in peat-free compost. Email www.eaststaffsbc.gov.uk.
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