Countryside Management Operations

Tender description

The London Borough of Barnet Greenspaces team, manage over 200 parks and open spaces ranging from large parks to small greens. We also undertake the management of horticultural features within public housing and highways sites across the borough. The requirements listed within the tender documents relate to operations required to ensure our open space, public housing and highway green areas are maintained to a high and safe standard and to allow access to the boroughs rich flora and fauna. The operations to be undertaken within this requirement apply to the maintenance of large grass and wild flower meadows, to ensuring our network of ditches are kept free flowing to provide adequate drainage for our open spaces. The borough has a network of (access routes) rural footpaths and bridleways which cross mainly the northern part of the borough, providing access to and through both public and private land rich in flora and fauna. The parks & open spaces, public housing sites have a large number of formal hedges which are cut twice a year along with the highways semi-rural roads which have hedgerows, hedges and grass verges that require cutting annually to ensure unimpeded access for pedestrians and vehicles. The countryside management operations requirement has been divided into lots suppliers can apply for provision for one or more of the lot requirements. The contract per lot will be for a four year period with option to extend for two years subject to performance and budget. Lot 1: Lot 1 Access Maintenance (Bridleways) Maintenance of routes for horse riders around the borough, full detail of requirement in tender document. Lot 2: Lot 2 Meadow Management The cutting and removal of arising from hay meadows, full detail of requirement in tender documents. Lot 3: Lot 3 Rural Verges The cutting of rural grass verges to maintain sightlines and maintain levels of growth, full detail of requirement intender documents. Lot 4: Lot 4 Hedge Maintenance including Rural (Flail-Cut) The cutting of hedges on the parks and open spaces, on the highway and rural roads in the Borough to maintain clear and safe sightlines and maintain levels of growth, full detail of requirement in tender documents. Lot 5: Lot 5 Ditch, Culvert, Land drainage and Revetments Clearance, maintenance and creation of ditches and land drainage and revetment to banks as required. Full detail of requirement in tender documents. Lot 6: Lot 6 Access Maintenance (Rural Path Maintenance) Maintenance of rural areas. rights of way, permissive footpaths, and long distance routes in mainly rural areas. Full detail of requirement in tender document.