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Rutland County Council

Rutland County Council Grounds Maintenance and Forestry Services

Agriculture & ForestryCPV 77314000
Value£3.4m
Deadline
Published19 Nov 2021
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
Paul Large Welland Procurement pp Rutland County Council
plarge@melton.gov.uk
+44 7769918574

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£3.4mtotal contract value
median £150k
this tender£0£3.7m

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.

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The brief

Rutland County Council is intending to procure its Grounds Maintenance and Forestry Services in the course of 2022 by further competition via YPO 881 Grounds Maintenance Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS).

Timetable The intention is to launch the further competition in February 2022, award by no later than December and for the contract to commence April 2023.

Decision Please note: the start date of the further competition is subject Council decision in early December.

Whilst its anticipated that the procurement will commence February 2022, it's possible the project could be postponed until a later date.

The commencement date of the contract may also be pushed back as a result.

Requirements The Council's GM requirements include grass cutting, maintaining hedges, shrubs and borders and other grounds maintenance tasks typical of a local authority.

The Council's Forestry requirements include planned, reactive and specialist arboricultural services, including responding to emergency tree falls.

Further details will appear in the Council's specifications published with the further competition documents.

Interested parties Interested parties are directed to YPO's website where they will learn more about the requirements and process to join the DPS in readiness for this procurement.

Signing up to the DPS Suppliers must be signed up to the DPS before they can be invited to participate in a further competition.

The on-boarding process to the DPS is relatively swift and similar to the first stage of a tender.

It is concerned with regulatory compliance and meeting specified minimum standards for the sector in question.

YPO www.ypo.co.uk For more information on the YPO 881 Grounds Maintenance and Associated Services Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) and the on-boarding process for new suppliers please contact YPO via facilitiesmanagement@ypo.co.uk ref: RCC GM f-c 2022 YPO 881 Wider opportunities Once signed up to YPO's GM DPS, suppliers will be eligible to compete for all other suitable contracts that other Councils choose to subject to further competition via this DPS.

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Suppliers must be signed up to the DPS before they can be invited to participate in a further competition.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02f895
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
028966-2021
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