Grounds maintenance services

Tender description

The Contracting Authority is appointing a service provider to deliver ground maintenance and building/estate cleaning services to some of its property located in the London Boroughs of Hackney and Islington. The Contracting Authority is appointing a service provider to deliver ground maintenance and building/estate cleaning services to some of its property located in the London Boroughs of Hackney and Islington. The successful Service provider must show a commitment to providing effective services that provide value for money to the Contracting Authority and its tenants and customers. The successful Service provider will need to have demonstrated a commitment to addressing welfare to work/worklessness, focusing on the young and long term unemployed on estates. The Contracting Authority will also be seeking to encourage the Service provider to engage with social enterprises in the delivery of services and will require the successful Service provider to cooperate in working towards a partnership approach to operating the service and managing the contracts. The proposed scope for grounds maintenance services will comprise all types of gardening works including but not limited to litter picking, grass cutting, maintenance of shrubs beds, trimming/pruning of hedges, shrubs and trees as specified in the procurement documents. The proposed scope of cleaning services will comprise the comprehensive cleaning of internal and external common areas including communal window cleaning, internal and external litter picking, removal of bulk debris/fly tipping, drain channel/gulley cleaning, graffiti removal, cleaning of street furniture and signage, reporting defective lamps/bulbs and other works associated with cleaning services as specified in the procurement documents.