Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services

Tender description

Arboricultural Services (tree maintenance services, including planting, felling, pruning etc.) on behalf of Rutland County Council and Melton Borough Council. Rutland County Council (RCC) on behalf of RCC and Melton Borough Council are seeking to procure the services of a reputable, experienced, reliable and skilled arboricultural services provider to provide planned and reactive arboricultural services/tree maintenance services across each of these local authorities for an initial period of 5 years with the option to extend for up to a maximum of 5 further years subject to performance. The appointed services provider will also be available to provide services to town councils and parish councils within the County of Rutland and Borough of Melton as required. The appointed services provider must have sufficient capacity, capability, experience and resources — equipment, plant and suitably qualified and experienced operatives — to fulfil the Councils' requirements. These include the capacity to respond to emergency ‘call-outs’ 24/7 throughout the year within a maximum of 2 hours, that is 2 hours from initial contact to arriving on site.