Tender

Tree planting and Maintenance / Aftercare and natural regeneration

  • Telford & Wrekin Council

F02: Contract notice

Notice identifier: 2021/S 000-026315

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-02ee38

Published 20 October 2021, 6:15pm



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

Telford & Wrekin Council

Addenbrooke House, Ironmasters Way

Telford

TF3 4NT

Contact

Lucy Smith

Email

lucy.smith@telford.gov.uk

Telephone

+44 1952384384

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKG21 - Telford and Wrekin

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.telford.gov.uk

Buyer's address

www.telford.gov.uk

one.3) Communication

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at

https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Telford:-Tree-maintenance-services./5747978635

Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via

https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Telford:-Trees./5747978635

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the above-mentioned address

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

one.5) Main activity

Environment


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

Tree planting and Maintenance / Aftercare and natural regeneration

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 77211500 - Tree-maintenance services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

The contract is for the planting of trees in the 2021 / 2022 planting season (November to February) and for the subsequent maintenance and aftercare for the following 3 financial years. Planting will be a mixture of native standard trees, whips and includes management of areas identified for natural regeneration.

two.1.5) Estimated total value

Value excluding VAT: £200,000

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKG21 - Telford and Wrekin
Main site or place of performance

Telford and Wrekin

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Telford and Wrekin Council is a Unitary Council located in the West Midlands in North East Shropshire. The Council has been successful in securing funding from the Local Authorities Treescapes Fund for the purchase and planting trees and hedgerows, to commence later this year and early 2022, and for maintaining trees over the next 3 years. The Local Authority Treescapes Fund (LATF) will fund Local Authority-led tree planting and natural colonisation of trees outside woods,

The Fund is part of the Government’s Nature for Climate Fund and will directly contribute to achieving our ambitious tree planting targets to restore habitats in England.

The funding is for planting trees and activities relating to natural colonisation of trees outside of woodland, and three years of maintenance costs to help get new trees fully established.

The new planting has many benefits including:

•Benefits to ecology and biodiversity

•Re-establishing connectivity between habitats, which will allow animals to travel between habitats

•carbon capture;

•improvements to air quality in the vicinity of the road

•assist with reducing soil erosion and keeping land stable.

•Reducing surface water run-off and thereby reducing flash flooding in the local area

The contract is for the planting of trees in the 2021 / 2022 planting season (November to February) and for the subsequent maintenance and aftercare for the following 3 financial years. Planting will be a mixture of native standard trees, whips and includes the management of areas identified for natural regeneration.

Four areas have been identified in the Borough as being suitable to use the funding. These areas have been affected by ash dieback, and trees have been felled or will need to be felled in the near future due to the disease.

The locations are:

•Legges Way, Madeley – Tree planting and natural regeneration

•Telford Town Park – Hedgerow planting

•Brookside Avenue - Tree planting

•Brookside Woodland – Tree planting and natural regeneration

Further information is written in the Invitation to Tender documents

two.2.5) Award criteria

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

two.2.6) Estimated value

Value excluding VAT: £200,000

two.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system

Duration in months

39

This contract is subject to renewal

No

two.2.10) Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: No

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No


Section three. Legal, economic, financial and technical information

three.1) Conditions for participation

three.1.2) Economic and financial standing

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents

three.1.3) Technical and professional ability

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No

four.2) Administrative information

four.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

Date

19 November 2021

Local time

5:00pm

four.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted

English

four.2.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

Duration in months: 3 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)

four.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders

Date

19 November 2021

Local time

5:00pm


Section six. Complementary information

six.1) Information about recurrence

This is a recurrent procurement: No

six.3) Additional information

The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:

https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Telford:-Tree-maintenance-services./5747978635

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:

https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/5747978635

GO Reference: GO-20211020-PRO-19107629

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

x

x

Country

United Kingdom