Grounds-maintenance equipment

Tender description

YPO operates nationally supplying schools, colleges and universities, in addition to all major local government departments including social services, catering, transport, highways, building services, admin and waste management as well as emergency service authorities. YPO are looking for providers to be appointed onto a Framework Agreement for the supply of grounds maintenance equipment and associated services for use primarily in the education market and local authority. This framework is designed to allow YPO to meet the needs of all public sector organisations by establishing an agreement where the end customer will place orders directly with the Provider on a ‘contract’ basis and the provider will deliver direct to the end customer on an agreed basis. This lot is designed for providers who are able to supply a vast range of grounds maintenance equipment across the whole of the UK. In order to bid for this lot, you must be a grounds maintenance equipment provider with the ability to supply the majority of the UK. Within this lot customers may seek third party financing; this will be the responsibility of the provider to facilitate this either through in-house or with their nominated finance house. This lot will be controlled from a central point at each provider who can provide the quotation and supply and support the machinery requested. This lot is designed for providers who are ably to supply a vast range of grounds maintenance equipment on a hire/lease basis across the whole of the UK. In order to bid for this lot you must have a wide range of readily available grounds maintenance stock, knowledgeable staff who are able to advise our customers which equipment is needed based on the work to be undertaken. Including machinery on short term hire. This lot is designed to provide the option for YPO’s customers to have an external body carry out repairs and maintenance and/or servicing of new equipment or carryout upgrades and provide spares, to existing equipment to the applicable safety or legal standards using best practice with suitably qualified staff, working in a safe manner. There must be sufficiently trained staff to support the customer in its primary objective and ensuring that they are available for use, in a safe and serviceable condition for the maximum amount of time, without undue failure or breakdown. This lot is designed to provide a compliant route for the sale of grounds maintenance equipment at the end of life, for sale on to another party, reconditioning or to be dismantled and recycled where possible.