South Cambridgeshire District Council- Cambourne Business Park Grounds Maintenance Contract

Tender description

In May 2021 SCDC purchased the Business Park, Great Cambourne, Cambourne, Cambridge CB23 6DP, where its Shire Hall main office is located. The site is between only 10 miles from Cambridge and 13 miles from St Neots. And can be found on google maps here: Google Maps. Following the completion of the purchase, SCDC has gained responsibility for the maintenance and upkeep of the green areas and grounds of the business park. The existing contract has been in place since 2019 and is shortly coming to an end. Therefore, SCDC needs to re-tender the contract and is looking for a suitably qualified and experienced contractor to carry out these grounds maintenance works throughout the year at the Business Park in Cambourne. If you wish to bid for this contract, please register to our electronic online tendering portal at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=cdf9394a-65db-ec11-8114-005056b64545 Lot 1: The ground maintenance involves general labour activities of: The grounds maintenance works include a variety of activities such as these general duties: - Litter pick - Watering grass and trees as required - Clearing debris from all bodies of water, maintaining aquatics and keeping reeds in the lakes under control by hand weeding from a boat. - Sweeping paths and car parks - Daily checks to lake pumps and equipment - notify of any failure for action by others - Routine grass cutting and edging including cutting neat circles around all trees in grass - Selective weed control to all areas of grass - Topping up bark mulch to all areas - Checking newt fences - Weeding shrubs beds by hand to avoid damaging perennials, lifting out compaction caused by pedestrians, application of fertilizers application of pesticides - Minor pruning to keep sight lines and kerb lines clear - Pruning all hedges - Maintain woodland planting, weeding tubes by hand and the balance by applications of roundup. Checking and removing loose tube, maintaining visibility splays - Depot works - there are no facilities on site for yard storage and waste disposal, so all materials, plant and equipment are removed off site each night. - Depot works - disposal of waste. All waste, grass cuttings and pruning’s are re-cycled at our Wildmere Farm depot. - Strimming banks surrounding future plots - Pruning trees at low level to remove all suckers and epicormic growth At times there will be additional labour needed to undertake as agreed and appropriate: - Spraying car parks and hard surfaces with herbicide (3 to 6 times per annum); - Ditto with algicide including breedon gravel areas - Removal of dead material from car park joints with a pedestrian operated hard bristle sweeping machine and by hand hoeing, collect and remove arising - Scarifying and bringing breedon gravel to a tilth, raking out and re-compacting - Scarifying lawns including the marketing suite grass and fertilizer application - Gritting and snow clearing (in lieu of beating up) - Cutting areas of future plots with a 3m cut flail mower (4 times per annum) - Formative pruning and removing spent herbaceous growth - Pruning avenue trees at high level with Mobile Elevating Work Platform (MEWP).