Official UK procurement notice
SC22272 Highway Arboriculture Services
Authority: Kent County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionKent County Council (the Council) is the largest local authority in England covering an area of 3,500 square kilometers. It has an annual expenditure of over £1bn on goods and services and a population of 1.6m. The Council provides a wide range of personal and strategic services on behalf of its residents, operating in partnership with the NHS Kent and Medway Clinical Commissioning Group, 12 district councils, and 289 parish/town councils. KCC consists of four directorates:
-Adult Social Care and Health;
-Children, Young People and Education;
-Growth, Environment and Transport; and
-Strategic and Corporate Services.
This service is being commissioned on behalf of the Growth, Environment and Transport directorate.
The Council requires contractors to facilitate its Arboricultural maintenance contract. A market engagement exercise is being undertaken to inform the scope of works, contract duration, and lotting strategy.
CPV: Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1A market engagement exercise will be held to inform the scope of works, however it is…PlannedRenewal
A market engagement exercise will be held to inform the scope of works, however it is expected that the scope will likely include the following:
Arboricultural maintenance:
-Managing obstructions to the highway from low branches
-Pruning back trees from private property/structures & street furniture
-Removal of dead/diseased and dying trees
-Ash dieback remedial works
-Removal of deadwood/ivy/climbing plants/foreign objects
-Undertaking and repeating crown reduction/annual programmed pollarding works
-Annual basal and epicormic programmed works.
-Tree planting and young tree establishment maintenance – weeding, watering, and mulch
-Ad-hoc works relating to the highway soft estate management, tree safety audits and response to customer enquiries.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 23 May 2023, 12:03 BST
- Last source update
- 23 May 2023, 12:03 BST
- Authority reference
DN669286- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-014617- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
23 May 2023 → 1 Aug 2023 · 2 dates- Notice published23 May 2023, 12:03 BST
- Tender notice expected1 Aug 2023, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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