Grounds Maintenance and Associated Servcies

Tender description

<p>Swale Borough Council are looking for opportunities of working with contractors to enhance our Climate and Ecological Emergency Action Plan delivering grounds maintenance across a variety of sites within the Swale Borough in East Kent.</p> <p>This will need to include new innovative ways of working, and as such we are inviting Expressions of Interest to tender for a suitably experienced grounds maintenance contractor to provide grounds maintenance provision across the Swale Borough Council areas.</p> <p>The contract will include grounds maintenance according to approved horticultural principals to 32 parks, numerous open spaces, 78 play areas, 9 sports grounds, 5 cemeteries, and 13 closed churchyards, multiple grassed and multiple planted areas.</p> <p>The maintenance required by the Council broadly compromises grass cutting, grass edging, hedge cutting, planted areas, sports facilities, grave digging, and removal/disposal of litter.</p> <p>The contract will commence on 15th January 2022 and terminate on 14th January 2027. The Council may extend the contract for a further 2 years. The tenderer who submits the Most Economically Advantageous Tender, (MEAT) will be awarded the contract.</p> <p>Expressions of Interest and Invitation to Tender (ITT) document must be submitted / uploaded on the Council's <a title="e-tendering portal" href="../../Login/Index?ReturnUrl=%2fLogin%2fLogoutConfirmation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">e-tendering portal</a> . The closing date for submissions of Expressions of Interest and the closing date for the ITT is 5 July 2021 at 23:55.</p> Keywords: Removal / disposal of litter, Grass cutting, Grave digging, Grounds Maintenance, Horticulture, Hedge cutting