Grounds maintenance services

Tender description

A procurement exercise to renew environmental services contracts across the East area. The East area will be further subdivided into below lots: — Lot 1: Norfolk and Suffolk, — Lot 2: Cambridgeshire (including Fenland and Lincolnshire), — Lot 3: Hertsmere, — Lot 4: Hertfordshire, — Lot 5: Essex. We require a ground maintenance service provider for Lot 1: Norfolk and Suffolk. There is a wide geographical spread of properties mainly in the Broadland are but also stretching from Kings Lynn to Ipswich. There are flats up to 4 stories located across the whole area. The schemes are primarily General Needs with 17 Live Smart retirement schemes split into 7 flat and 10 bungalow schemes. We require a ground maintenance service provider for Lot 2: Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. There is a wide geographical spread of properties which stretches from Wisbech to Huntington and Peterborough; the main cluster of properties are located within the Fenland area, mainly in the market town of Wisbech. The properties are general needs schemes together with 12 retirement Live Smart Schemes. Any flats in the area are up to 3 stories high at most. We require a ground maintenance service provider for Lot 3: Hertsmere. Clarion has some 130 sites within the Hertsmere region. This area has a wide ranging, geographically dispersed portfolio of properties including new build flats, low, medium and high-rise flats and a mix of new and pre-established housing estates of varying, but generally smaller scale sizes. There are also a number of newer schemes that are mixed tenure, incorporating outright sale, leasehold, shared ownership, rented accommodation plus some supported and sheltered style accommodation. As a result we have a wide and varying client base. We also offer a concessionary gardening service to a small number residents in the Hertsmere area, including our Borehamwood estate, Elstree, Radlett, Bushey, Watford, Shenley Ridge and Potters Bar. We require a ground maintenance service provider for Lot 4: Hertfordshire. The Hertfordshire area has a wide ranging geographically dispersed portfolio of properties including new build flats, low to medium rise flats and a mix of new and pre-established housing estates of varying sizes. A number of newer schemes are mixed tenure, incorporating outright sale, leasehold, shared ownership, rented accommodation plus supported and sheltered housing schemes for the elderly and 3 specialist schemes for vulnerable people. As a result we have a wide and varying client base. We require a ground maintenance service provider for Lot 5: Essex. There are 75 schemes contained within this lot, which are further subdivided by service charge area. There are a variety of differing properties within this lot from garage blocks to 800+ property housing estates. There are a mixture of garage areas, houses, small and large blocks of flats, with none above 4 stories in height. The majority of the properties are former Local Authority owned, many in village/town locations, spread evenly within the Essex Area. Amongst the lots are 2 sheltered housing schemes for elderly and 8 specialist schemes for vulnerable people. All areas to be maintained are communal areas/open spaces for which most do not need separate access arrangement.