Grounds maintenance services

Tender description

Ayrshire Housing requires a suitably qualified landscape maintenance contractor to carry out the upkeep and regular maintenance of open space and garden areas of the various sites listed in the tender document to keep them in a neat and tidy condition to promote and control growth. The work will comprise routine upkeep, and regular maintenance of open space and garden areas of the various sites listed in the invitation to tender documents, to keep them in a neat and tidy condition to promote and control growth. The works will include: Grass cutting, Culvert Cleaning, Stream Cleaning, Litter Collection, Weed Control, Shrub Maintenance, Tree Maintenance, Whip Maintenance, Hedge Maintenance, Woodland Maintenance, Garden Care Maintenance, Play Area Maintenance, Bin Store Maintenance, Bin Store Powerwashing, Bin Store Refuse Removal and Rubbish and Bonfire Removal. The above will include the disposal of all arisings resulting from the works. Litter collection will be deemed to include collection and disposal of fallen leaves and other seasonal arisings. Reactive repair works will be priced separately for instruction by the Employer on an ad-hoc basis and will typically include items such as uplift and removal of items not included in general litter collection, staking and tying trees, hedging works, pruning trees, crown reduction, removing mature shrubs, tree felling, tree replacement, shrub replacement, mulching, soiling, grass area repairs, turfing and work to existing gullies.