Streetscene Services (Grounds Maintenance and Street Cleaning)

Concepts

• grounds maintenance
• streetscene services
• woking
• woking borough council
• provision of its streetscene services
• maintenance cyclical
• hours emergency service
• borough council
• residents.the procurement
• in-tend https://in-tendhost.co.uk/wokingboroughcouncil/aspx/home.broadly

Location

Borough of Woking Surrey

Description

Woking Borough Council (the "Council") invites tenders from suitability qualified and experienced organisations for the provision of its streetscene services (grounds maintenance, street cleaning and allied services) contract (the "Contract").

Total Quantity or Scope

This Contract shall include the following Services: • Cleansing of streets and open spaces • Removal of rubbish and fly tips, including the provision of a dedicated crew for fly-tip response; • Car parks cleansing; • Subway cleansing; • Markets cleansing; • Special events; • Removal of leaf and blossom fall; • Emptying of litter and on-street recycling bins; • Removal and storage of abandoned shopping trolleys; • Gum removal and street washing; • Removal and storage of dead animals; • Transfer and disposal of cleansing waste; • Out of hours emergency service; • Playground inspections; • Removal of flyposting; • Weed treatment; • Fast response cleansing; • Grounds Maintenance Cyclical works (Grass cutting, shrub & hard surface maintenance); • Parks and open spaces; • Sports pitches; • Landscaping; • Tree surgery/ Arboriculture works; •Support to emergencies including flooding and snow clearance. The Council are seeking innovative proposals to meet the affordability challenge whilst maintaining a good quality standard for residents.The procurement is undertaken pursuant to the competitive dialogue procedure. Economic operators will need to register on the portal in order to participate and the registration is free. All procurement documentation is available from, and all communication is to be conducted via the portal at In-Tend https://in-tendhost.co.uk/wokingboroughcouncil/aspx/Home.Broadly, to express interest economic operators must complete and return responses to the selection questionnaire (SQ) in accordance with the instructions set out in the procurement documentation.

CPV Codes

• 77314000 - Grounds 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 Council’s needs and requirements for the Contract are included in the procurement documentation. It should be noted that the Council is under significant financial pressure and is facing an affordability challenge for this contract. As such, this procurement process is seeking innovative proposals to aid the Council in lowering the contract price whilst seeking to maintain a good quality standard for residents.Following submissions of the completed SQs, the Council will apply the selection stage criteria. The Council intends to select up to five (5) economic operators to progress from SQ stage to invitation to participate in dialogue and invitation to submit detailed solutions. Following evaluation of detailed solutions, the Council will invite all the bidders to detailed dialogue sessions. Once the Council identifies the solution/solutions capable of meeting its needs, dialogue will be concluded, and bidders invited to submit a final tender before a preferred bidder is selected that represents the Most Economically Advantageous Tender.TUPE will apply.The Council reserves the right to abandon this procurement process at any stage following the publication of this Notice and/or not to award any contract in respect of this Notice. The Council further reserves the right to award only part of the opportunity described in this Contract Notice, and/or to omit any part of the Services at any stage and to require bidders to adjust their solutions accordingly.The estimated value at Sections II.1.5 and II.2.6 is for the entire maximum possible contract period of 16 years. In arriving at the estimated value, the Authority has considered without limitation current value of the services and the need to deliver significant savings through this procurement exercise. However, the estimated value does not take into account indexation of the contract price, which is set out in the Contract documentation. Applicants are solely responsible for costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation and submission of the SQ. Under no circumstances will the Council or any of its advisors be liable for any costs or expenses borne by any applicant or such applicant's associated organisations or any of its advisors in this process whether the applicant is successful or otherwise.Applicants should note that the procurement documentation provide indicative information of the Council’s approach in the procurement process at this stage and are for general information only. The Council reserves the right to vary, amend and update any aspects of the procurement documentation and final details and versions will be confirmed to those applicants who are invited to participate in dialogue.Tenderers should ensure that email address used to register will be checked regularly.