Published date: 20 November 2023
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Awarded contract (published 20 September 2024)
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Contract summary
Industry
Excavating and earthmoving work - 45112000
Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services - 77000000
Location of contract
United Kingdom
Value of contract
£8,000,000 to £10,000,000
Procurement reference
KENT001-DN669286-89123503
Published date
20 November 2023
Closing date
20 December 2023
Closing time
12pm
Contract start date
1 September 2024
Contract end date
31 August 2032
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Negotiated procedure
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
The arboriculture programmed works contract is required to ensure that KCC complies with its Duty of Care' under the Highway Act 1980 and fulfils its obligations in Common Law as a land and tree owner.
The requirement is for the provision of highway tree works resulting from the Highway Soft Landscape Teams Tree Safety Audits.
The successful Contractor(s) will be required to facilitate both Tree Maintenance and Tree Planting for their awarded lot.
Tree maintenance: The service will provide for the removal of potentially hazardous trees and branches on both public and private property. The service will also facilitate removal of tree stumps and replacement tree planting. The service is provided primarily through programmed maintenance work with flexibility for additional ad-hoc provision. This service will include an additional provision for emergency tree clearance to supplement the primary 'Emergency Tree Works Contract' should extra resource be required during a declared emergency event.
Tree planting: The service will include tree planting within the highway environment. Tree planting will include provision for required regulatory replacement tree planting, and scheme/grant led planting including associated aftercare and young tree maintenance to ensure successful establishment. Tree size for highway planting is 'heavy standard' nursery stock ranging from 12-16cm girth and planting sites are a combination of both hard and soft surface environments.
This service will facilitate programmed and ad hoc tree maintenance works over a maximum eight-year period both on, and adjacent to the highway network, across the whole of the county (12 districts excluding Medway).
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Invicta House
Maidstone
ME14 1XX
England
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