Official UK procurement notice
Arboricultural Service and Maintenance Contract
Authority: London Borough of Croydon (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLondon Borough of Croydon (‘The Council’) is seeking to appoint one leading provider suitably qualified and experienced contractor in relation to entering into a term service contracts to deliver a range of arboricultural services and maintenance functions. The proposed service shall include works are aligned in the following areas:
(a) Tree works and management;
(b) Tree survey and inspection;
(c) Planned maintenance;
(d) Reactive maintenance
A term service maintenance contract for The London Borough of Croydon’s trees and woodlands team manages trees across Highways, Parks & Open Spaces, Housing land, Woodlands, and other Council Estates land. This comprises of Approximately 35,00 street trees, 500 hectares of woodlands, and Approximately 20,000 trees across our 127 Parks and Housing sites and Crematoria, this is within an area of 87km², this extends from Upper Norwood in the north to Old Coulsdon in the south. The London Borough of Croydon is supported by a road network of 726km.
The contract will be for an estimated value of £7,500,000 (excluding VAT) across 5 years with the option to extend for 1 or more times up to a maximum of 5 years.
CPV: Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services · Metal · Tree pruning and hedge trimming · Tree seeding · Tree-clearing services · Tree-cutting services · Tree-maintenance services · Trees
The lotProcurement structure
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality: 40
- Price: 60
- Price carries 60 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Yes
- First published
- 21 Oct 2022, 17:57 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Oct 2022, 17:57 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 21 Nov 2022 – …
- Authority reference
DN635605- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-029851- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-037826Find a Tender
Publisher note: The contract estimated value is based on the Council estimated volume requirements, however this is a Zero guarantee contract and therefore the actual volume required and contract value may differ to contract value set out in this notice. The Council is using the London Tenders portal to conduct this exercise, which can be accessed using this link https://www.londontenders.org/ The use of this system allows a full audit trail of communication with providers to ensure fair treatment as well as to maintain full confidentiality. If you require assistance in using the London Tenders portal please contact their Support Helpdesk by email ProContractTenderers@proactis.com for all support issues. This will auto-log a support ticket. On logging a ticket, if you have not already logged one before, you will be issued with a registration email that will give you instructions to allow you to log in, log, review and update your own tickets. In emergency situations you can contact their Support Service Desk on +44 (0)20 7539 2828. Please note the Support Service Desk will not be able to answer any market test specific enquiries. The Council reserves the right, subject to the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 to change without notice the basis of any part of the procurement process or to cancel the procurement at any time and not to proceed with the award of any contract at any stage of the procurement process.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 21 Nov 2022, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
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- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 360 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 21 Nov 2022, 12:00 GMT
Timeline
21 Oct 2022 → 21 Nov 2022 · 3 dates- Notice published21 Oct 2022, 17:57 BST
- Submission deadline21 Nov 2022, 12:00 GMT
- Bids opened21 Nov 2022, 12:00 GMT
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court of England and WalesReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.