Inverness Campus Landscape Maintenance services

Concepts

• landscape gardening
• inverness
• inverness campus
• inverness campus landscape maintenance services
• hard landscaping features
• soft landscaping
• common areas of inverness campus
• inverness campus owners association
• landscape maintenance services
• estimated value of these services

Location

Inverness & Nairn and Moray, Badenoch & Strathspey: Inverness Campus

Description

A suitably qualified and experienced contractor is required to provide landscape maintenance services at Inverness Campus. The site contains very high quality soft and hard landscaping features, including grassed areas, meadows, ponds, extensive tree planting, foot and cycle paths. Activities will cover Soft Landscaping; Hard Landscaping; Water Areas and Winter Maintenance Activities The Framework consists of two separate specifications to cover (1) The common areas of Inverness Campus, controlled by ICOA and (2) the HIE owned buildings within Inverness Campus, namely An Lochran, Aurora House and Solasta House. Despite the two specifications and pricing schedules, the contract will be delivered as one by the contractor and pricing is expected to reflect the scale of the overall contract.

Total Quantity or Scope

The Framework will be awarded by Inverness Campus Owners Association (ICOA) and will be available for use by themselves and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. It will also be available for call-off by any current or future HIE subsidiary organisation, associated company, joint venture or similar, subject to a case-by-case prior approval by ICOA. It is expected the services will be required from April 2022 for a period of 3 years, unless terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Framework, with ICOA having the option to extend for a period or periods together not exceeding 1 calendar year following the Initial Term. The estimated value of these services over 3 years is between GBP620 000 and GBP693 000 excluding VAT. Some of the documents for this tender are too large to publish on PCS so will be made available through Objective Connect. Bidders should email icoa@hient.co.uk with the name of the tender in the subject line requesting access to this site. 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.

Renewal Options

This Framework will be awarded for 36 months with an optional 12 month extension.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 71421000 - Landscape gardening services
• 90620000 - Snow-clearing services

Indicators

• This is a recurring contract.
• Options are available.
• Renewals are available.
• Professional qualifications are sought.
• Staff qualifications are relevant.
• Technical restrictions apply.

Other Information

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