Garden Aid and Ad Hoc Maintenance

Concepts

• landscape gardening
• edinburgh
• garden aid
• gardening work
• gardening support
• ad hoc maintenance
• all active garden aid customers
• grounds maintenance
• the garden aid service
• seasonal grass cutting ad hoc gardening

Location

Edinburgh

Description

The City of Edinburgh Council provides gardening support (Garden Aid) to elderly and disabled residents who are not able to undertake gardening work and who have no other adult in their home able to maintain their garden. The successful Contractor must provide a regular frequency based grass cutting and hedge trimming service to all active Garden Aid customers, as well as other homes as instructed by the Council. In addition, on a request basis small scale path, fencing, landscaping, grounds maintenance and tidy-up works may be required in areas covered by the Garden Aid Service and within the Council's wider Parks and Green Spaces estate.

Total Quantity or Scope

Single Supplier Framework Agreement Seasonal Hedge trimming Seasonal Grass Cutting Ad hoc Gardening works to Parks and greenspaces Covers approximately 2500 homes located in the Edinburgh Council boundaries

Renewal Options

Further extensions of up to 24 months is allowed. Please note the estimated value in 11.2.6 is based upon 48 months.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 71421000 - Landscape gardening services
• 77342000 - Hedge trimming
• 77314100 - Grassing services

Indicators

• Bids should cover the whole contract.
• This is a recurring contract.
• Renewals are available.
• Financial restrictions apply.
• Staff qualifications are relevant.
• Award on basis of price.

Other Information

CONTRACT SPECIFIC MANDATORY CRITERIA Part IV: Selection criteria - C: Technical and Professional Ability – Prompt Payment – Question 4C.4 - It is a mandatory requirement of this Framework that a prompt payment clause is present in all Contracts used in the delivery of the requirements. This ensures payment of sub-contractors at all stages of the supply chain within 30 days and includes an obligation to provide a point of contact for sub-contractors to refer to in the case of payment difficulties. This will require active monitoring of payment performance as well as the provision of evidence and reports to the Council on request or as contractually scheduled. Bidders should confirm that this condition will be met within the response to this question. Part IV: Selection criteria - C: Technical and Professional Ability – Living Wage Payment – Question 4C.4 Tenderers are asked to confirm that they will pay staff that are involved in the delivery of the [framework agreement / contract, and/or any subsequent call off contract] (including any agency or sub-contractor staff) directly involved in the delivery of the [framework agreement / contract, and/or any subsequent call off contract]), at least the real Living Wage. Part IV: Selection criteria - C: Environmental Management Measures – Question 4C.7 - Bidders will be required to provide evidence that their organisation has taken steps to build their awareness of the climate change emergency and how they will respond. Accepted evidence includes but is not limited to the provision of a carbon reduction plan Where a Tenderer’s response is of a less than the acceptable standard, the Council may exclude the Tenderer from the competition or may apply discretion seeking supporting evidence to determine the Tenderer’s suitability to proceed in the competition. Part IV: Selection criteria - D: Quality Assurance Schemes & Environmental Management – Question 4D.1 - It is a mandatory requirement that Tendering Organisations with more than 5 employees have in place a Health & Safety Policy which is approved at a senior level within the Organisation and is reviewed regularly. Bidders should confirm that this condition has been met within the response to this question. Where a Bidder does not have a Health & Safety Policy and is required to do so, the Council may exclude the Bidder from the competition. NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=748598. The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx. Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems. A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363 Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-pr... A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows: Community Benefits are detailed within the Tenderers Submission (SC Ref:748598) Download the ESPD document here: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/ESPD/ESPD_Download.aspx?id=748598