Tree planting and Maintenance / Aftercare and natural regeneration

Concepts

• tree maintenance
• telford
• telford and wrekin council
• unitary council
• north east shropshire
• planting of trees
• government’s nature for climate fund
• mixture of native standard trees
• tree planting
• planting season

Location

Telford and Wrekin

Description

The contract is for the planting of trees in the 2021 / 2022 planting season (November to February) and for the subsequent maintenance and aftercare for the following 3 financial years. Planting will be a mixture of native standard trees, whips and includes management of areas identified for natural regeneration.

Total Quantity or Scope

Telford and Wrekin Council is a Unitary Council located in the West Midlands in North East Shropshire. The Council has been successful in securing funding from the Local Authorities Treescapes Fund for the purchase and planting trees and hedgerows, to commence later this year and early 2022, and for maintaining trees over the next 3 years. The Local Authority Treescapes Fund (LATF) will fund Local Authority-led tree planting and natural colonisation of trees outside woods, The Fund is part of the Government’s Nature for Climate Fund and will directly contribute to achieving our ambitious tree planting targets to restore habitats in England. The funding is for planting trees and activities relating to natural colonisation of trees outside of woodland, and three years of maintenance costs to help get new trees fully established. The new planting has many benefits including: • Benefits to ecology and biodiversity • Re-establishing connectivity between habitats, which will allow animals to travel between habitats • carbon capture; • improvements to air quality in the vicinity of the road • assist with reducing soil erosion and keeping land stable. • Reducing surface water run-off and thereby reducing flash flooding in the local area … Planting will be a mixture of native standard trees, whips and includes the management of areas identified for natural regeneration. Four areas have been identified in the Borough as being suitable to use the funding. These areas have been affected by ash dieback, and trees have been felled or will need to be felled in the near future due to the disease. The locations are: •Legges Way, Madeley – Tree planting and natural regeneration •Telford Town Park – Hedgerow planting •Brookside Avenue - Tree planting •Brookside Woodland – Tree planting and natural regeneration Further information is written in the Invitation to Tender documents

CPV Codes

• 77211500 - Tree-maintenance services

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Renewals are not available.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Telford:-Tree-maintenance-services... To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/5747978635 GO Reference: GO-20211020-PRO-19107690