INVITATION TO TENDER FOR THE PROVISION OF WEED CONTROL SERVICES

Concepts

• agriculture, fishing and forestry
• basingstoke
• deane borough council
• hcc
• provision of weed control services
• agricultural services
• weed control
• control of weeds
• forestry services
• weed control services

Location

Description

Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council (The Council) currently have responsibility for treatment and control of weeds on Hampshire County Council (HCC) owned footpaths and pavements. These areas are all 'hard surfaces'. The Council also have their own areas for which they are responsible for weed control. These are mainly 'soft landscaped areas' but does include some amount of 'hard surfaces'. The Council is seeking to appoint a suitable contractor to provide weed control services in accordance with the full specification included in this tender document. This contract is for two years plus a further optional year.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 77000000 - Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services
• 77100000 - Agricultural services
• 77200000 - Forestry services
• 77300000 - Horticultural services

Indicators

• Contract is suitable for SMEs.

Other Information

Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council (The Council) currently have responsibility for treatment and control of weeds on Hampshire County Council (HCC) owned footpaths and pavements. These areas are all 'hard surfaces'. The Council also have their own areas for which they are responsible for weed control. These are mainly 'soft landscaped areas' but does include some amount of 'hard surfaces'. The Council is seeking to appoint a suitable contractor to provide weed control services in accordance with the full specification included in this tender document. … The Council has proposed the following timetable for this Tender process: Dispatch of ITT: Thursday 15th April 2021 Questions & Answers: Thurs 15th April - Mon 10th May 2021 Return of Tender: 12.00.00 Friday 14th May 2021 Evaluation of Tender: Friday 28th May 2021 Notification of Contract Award to Tenderers: Tues 3rd June 2021 Contract commencement meeting: TBA The Council reserves the right to change the above timetable and Tenderers will be notified accordingly where there is a change in the timetable. The Council is utilising an electronic tendering tool to manage this procurement and communicate with Tenderers. Accordingly, there will be no hard copy documents issued to Tenderers and all communications with the Council, including the submission of Tenderers' Responses, will be conducted via the ProContract system, which can be accessed using the following link: http://sebp.due-north.com If you need any further assistance or have any queries about using the ProContract system please contact the PROACTIS support team; contact details are as follows: Email ProContractSuppliers@proactis.com OR log a support call directly using the following link: http://proactis.kayako.com/procontractv3/Core/Default/Index quoting project DN538462 Please note expressions of interest must be registered before 11.00a.m on Monday 10th May 2021. Completed tenders and supporting information should be returned no later than 12:00:00 on Friday 14th May 2021. link to South East business portal http://sebp.due-north.com