Communal Grounds Maintenance Services

Please ensure that all documents available and information contained in the notice are read before submitting a bid. The successful supplier will be responsible for delivering both Planned Cyclical Services and Reactive Optional Services. Planned Cyclical Services comprised of: Grass Maintenance (Amenity and Naturalised) including Cutting and Edging; Shrub and Herbaceous Bed Maintenance; Flower and Rose Bed Maintenance (including raised flower beds);Hedge Maintenance; Wildflower; Hard Surface Maintenance; Leaf Clearance; Litter and Debris Removal which shall vary by season demand and need and could fluctuate according to environmental changes and impacts. Reactive Optional Services which may include for example: Planting Design, Implementation and Establishment (Bedding, Shrubs, Herbaceous, Hedges, Bulbs); Grass Renovations; Habitat Feature Design, Implementation and Establishment; Demolition Site Ground Maintenance; Scrub Management; Invasive Species Management; Any other work not deemed as a Routine Planned Cyclical Service and is to be carried out on the specific instructions of the Contract Administrator. A comprehensive review of its current Communal Grounds Maintenance Service provision has been conducted. Following assessments of Customer requirements, supply market engagement and in recognition of the Client’s emerging ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) and Green Spaces Strategies, we wish to emphasis to potential suppliers that the scope of the Services may continually evolve and may very in requirements over the Contract Period. The Client’s Sites are currently located in seventeen (17) Local Authority Areas. The majority are in the Borough of Walsall and has a growing portfolio of Sites in other West Midlands Local Authority areas. Whilst the Client anticipates that the Site volumes and geographical area of operation, shall remain fairly static for each financial Year of the Contract Period, the Client’s portfolio of Premises and associated green space Sites may change by individual Premise and by block as a result of: a) decreases/increases - disposal or Premise/Site transfer; b) increase in portfolio of the Client’s Premises (new Premises/Sites being on-boarded); c) regeneration/ re-purposing, particularly the change in application/use of Sites in respect of the Client’s green space strategy