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Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

KMPT Grounds and Gardens Maintenance Service

Agriculture & ForestryCPV 77314000 77310000 77340000 77312000 77311000 77330000 77211500
Value£816k
Awarded11 Nov 2024
Published12 Feb 2025
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£816ktotal contract value
median £150k
this tender£0£3.5m

This is a large award for Agriculture, Forestry & Horticulture — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 3,317 valued Agriculture, Forestry & Horticulture tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (the "Authority") has awarded a Contract for the provision of a fully inclusive Grounds and Gardens Maintenance Service across the Authority's sites.

The Supplier will ensure that all sites are maintained to a high standard for the Authority's patients, visitors and staff to reflect the requirements of the client, the care quality commission (CQC) and NHS Patient lead assessments of the care environment (PLACE).

The Contract commenced on 16th January 2025 for a period of five (5) years.

The term may be extended, provided that the duration of the Contract shall be no longer than seven (7) years in total.

The Authority has procured this Contract following the Open Procedure under the UK Public Contract Regulations 2015 and the Authority's Standing Financial Instructions.

The Authority has awarded one Contract for the provision of all services detailed within the Contract specification.

The Authority is a large Mental Health NHS Trust, providing a full range of adult mental health and learning disability services to our local population of 1.8 million people across Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey.

The Authority's services are predominantly provided around key urban centres including Maidstone, Medway and Canterbury.

A range of services are also provided in community locations, reflecting the urban and rural mix of the area.

Each year, the Authority cares for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

The Authority will work collaboratively with the Supplier of the Grounds and Gardens Maintenance Service to achieve its ambitions of making a 'cared for environment' and help the Authority to meet user expectations.

The Supplier will be expected to deliver improvements to service delivery and value for money over the life of the Contract.

Core tasks will include, but not be limited to, • Grass cutting; • Shrub/herbaceous bed maintenance; • Hedge maintenance; • Cleaning of grounds, pathways free of moss; and • Court yard works (TBD).

Periodic tasks will include, but not be limited to: • Grass edging; • Tree surveys and tree works resulting from surveys; • Young tree maintenance; and • Replacement of shrubs and plants.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Supplier will ensure that all sites

The Supplier will ensure that all sites are maintained to a high standard for the Authority's patients, visitors and staff to reflect the requirements of the client, the care quality commission (CQC) and NHS Patient lead assessments of the care environment (PLACE).

02

The term may be extended, provided

The term may be extended, provided that the duration of the Contract shall be no longer than seven (7) years in total.

03

The Supplier will be expected to deliver

The Supplier will be expected to deliver improvements to service delivery and value for money over the life of the Contract.

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The Supplier will ensure that all sites are maintained to a high standard for the Authority's patients, visitors and staff to reflect the requirements of the client, the care quality commission (CQC) and NHS Patient lead assessments of the care environment (PLACE).

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