Contract for the Provision of Grounds Maintenance Services

Tender description

Nottingham Community Housing Association is seeking to put in place grounds maintenance contracts of communal areas of general needs, market rent, leasehold and support housing schemes in areas across Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Rutland. The services are being made available to the market across 16 Contract Lot Areas aligned predominantly to geographical areas. Contract Area Lots: Contract Area Lot 1 GNC Broxtowe Contract Area Lot 2 GNC Derby North Contract Area Lot 3 GNC Derby South Contract Area Lot 4 GNC Nottingham North Contract Area Lot 5 GNC Nottingham South Contract Area Lot 6 GNN Grantham / Sleaford Contract Area Lot 7 GNN Mansfield Contract Area Lot 8 GNN Newark Contract Area Lot 9 GNN Ollerton Contract Area Lot 10 GNN Worksop Contract Area Lot 11 GNS Eastern Rural Contract Area Lot 12 GNS Leicester and Hinckley Contract Area Lot 13 GNS Loughborough and NW Leicestershire Contract Area Lot 14 GNS Melton Mowbray Contract Area Lot 15 GNS Northampton Contract Area Lot 16 CQC Registered Services Services include grass cutting, pruning hedges, shrubs and borders, day to day minor tree works, weeding and spraying of hard landscaping and litter picking. In addition contractors will be expected to maintain high professional and environmental standards, take part in tenant involvement initiative and support the contracting authority in developing its 'social value' work. Tenderers can bid for one or more Contract Area Lots but will not be offered more than 5 of the geographical contracts unless, following evaluation, all tenderers submitting bids on a particular Contract Area Lot (s) have been awarded to five other Contract Area Lots, in which case the Contract Area Lot (s) will be award to the tenderer who is the most economically advantageous tender regardless of the fact they have been awarded five other Contract Area Lots. Contracts will be let on the basis of an initial three year term with the option to extend for up to a further 3 years, delivering a maximum contract term of 6 years. Tenderers should note that the decision to extend beyond the 3 year initial term will be on a Contract Area Lot by Contract Area Lot basis and will be sanctioned at the sole discretion of the Contracting Authority.