Landscaping Services - Lot 4 Caithness and Sutherland

Tender description

This is a Contract Award Notice and as such the procurement process is complete. HIE required a suitable qualified and experienced supplier to provide the following services: repair, maintenance and general upkeep of hard and soft landscaped areas incl. grass cutting and a preventative winter schedule for HIE’s commercial and HIE occupied property portfolio. These services will be required from 1 July 2021 for an initial period of 2.75 years (until 31 March 2024), with HIE having the option to extend for a period or periods together not exceeding 1 year following the Initial Term. The initial 2.75-year budget available to deliver this service for this particular lot was between GBP 68,750 and GBP 93,500 (excluding VAT). Lot 1: HIE’s current requirements are divided into 8 Lots: 1 Moray 2 Inner Moray Firth 3 Argyll and the Islands 4 Caithness and Sutherland 5 Lochaber 6 Skye and Wester Ross 7 Innse Gall (Western Isles) 8 Orkney As the values for Lot 5 and 6 meet all of the following criteria it is exempt from both The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 and the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014: - below the small lot threshold and - does not exceed 20% of the estimated aggregated value of all the combined Lots and - does not exceed GBP 50k Consequently, and as this requirement covers the whole of the HIE geographic area, HIE is procuring Lot 5 and 6 via a selective competitive process. Bidders who are interested in bidding for any of the other contracts can do so by locating the respective Public Contract Scotland (PCS)/Find a Tender Service (FTS) notices, which were all published on the same date with ‘Landscaping Services’ in the contract description. Please refer to the “Restriction on Number on Lots Awarded” section in the Scope of Requirements document. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.