Middleton Cheney Parish Maintenance

Middleton Cheney Parish Council wishes to provide a programme of general maintenance across the parish. This will involve routine visits to undertake regular maintenance as well as ad hoc, responsive remedial works. The Council is tendering with a view to agreeing a contract with a supplier from 20th August 2024, to begin work in September 2024.

The contract will then run for three years and will end on 31st August 2027.

REQUIREMENTS

The Parish Council is seeking a contractor to provide general maintenance across the village, primarily to its play areas and equipment and street furniture. The successful contractor will be expected to meet the following requirements:

1. Skill set to undertake the following tasks:

a. Street cleaning: signs, bus stops, graffiti

b. Building maintenance: Parish Meeting Rooms

c. Grounds Maintenance and clearing: ad hoc litter clearances

d. Asset Maintenance: Play equipment, street furniture

e. Ad hoc general Parish tasks: Relocation of Vehicle Activated Sign, supporting events set-up

2. Schedule:

4-weekly defib checks

4-weekly litter bin and dog waste bin review and remedials

6-weekly Vehicle Automated Sign relocation.

3-monthly graffiti clearance

6-monthly noticeboard and bus shelter review and remedials

6-monthly cemetery review and remedials

6-monthly play area and street furniture review and remedials

Annual play area re-stain

3. The Contractor will have suitably skilled and experienced staff to be able to undertake routine grounds and property maintenance tasks that will be required and provided on an hourly ad hoc basis; such tasks will include but are not limited to: replacing damaged guttering and downpipes, minor buildings repairs and maintenance, painting and decorating, dismantling and fitting new parts to play equipment, minor fence repairs, installing small items of fixtures and fittings, gardening tasks (hedge cutting/tree pruning, attending to orphaned graves). These tasks will be advised by the officer.