Grounds maintenance services

Tender description

Denbighshire County Council is undertaking a two stage selective tender exercise to award a contract for the provision of county-wide grounds maintenance services for Housing and Community Development (HCD) estates and complexes. Denbighshire County Council is seeking a single all-embracing arrangement with one firm, partnership or consortium from across the private and third sectors in order to provide a consistently high quality grounds maintenance service for HCD customers, neighbourhoods and the wider Denbighshire community. The intention is to select and invite a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 Potential Providers who pass the Pre-Qualification Stage to progress to tender stage. It is the intention of Denbighshire County Council to appoint the provider under a fixed price contract The expected duration of the contract agreement will be 3 years plus a further 2 years subject to satisfactory performance and quality assessment. It is anticipated that the initial 3-year period will be from 1.4.2015 to 31.3.2018. The main aim of the contract is for the provision of a Countywide Grounds Maintenance Service for all DCC Housing and Community Development estates and complexes across Denbighshire. The works shall consist of scheduled grass cutting, hedge trimming, maintenance of planted beds, renovation of damaged grass areas, weed killing and litter picking. The potential value of the contract will be circa 175 000 GBP per annum, circa 525 000 GBP over the initial 3-year period and circa 875 000 GBP over the potential lifetime of the contract. Denbighshire County Council encourages responses from Potential Providers demonstrating innovation with regard to delivering Value for Money principles namely ‘Quality’, ‘Performance’, ‘Cost’ and ‘Sustainable Community Benefit’.