Landscape Maintenance and Common Close Cleaning Contract 2025-2027

Description

The Contract will principally comprise landscape maintenance and common close cleaning service. The landscape maintenance services will mainly include litter picking, grass cutting, shrub bed, hedging and leaf collection to existing properties and common landscaped areas throughout Cardonald and Pollokshields, Glasgow to the areas detailed within the Landscape Architects tender drawings. The Contract may also include bulk uplifts, tree maintenance services, tree and stump removal works, and repairs to existing damaged grass and other landscaped areas. The Contract may also include planting and landscaping improvement works at the Queensland Community Gardens estate. The landscape maintenance will initially be undertaken to estates located at St Andrews Drive, Queensland Community Garden and Halfway Park, however Southside Housing Association may introduce additional estates during the Contract that are located on the south side of Glasgow which shall be valued at the rates within Tender Document A where the maintenance requirements are similar in character. The Common Close Cleaning maintenance requirements will principally involve weekly internal and external cleaning to properties, and also monthly & six monthly cleaning activities (refer Specification Items 1-21 described within Tender Document C ‘Common Close Cleaning Specification’ for further information). The Landscape Maintenance and Common Close Cleaning services to the properties described within the tender documentation are currently undertaken by Southside Housing Association’s estates team. However, the nature of the service is changing and it is the intention of Southside Housing Association that the successful tenderer of this procurement will undertake the service after conclusion of this opportunity. The Contract term will be for an initial twenty-one month period commencing on 1st July 2025 with optional annual 1 year + 1 year + 1 year extensions up to a maximum contract completion date of 31st March 2030. Lot 1: Single Stage Tendering in accordance with Regulations 28 (Open Procedure) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. Bidders are also advised that Southside Housing Association will hold a Meet the Buyer/Site Visit Event during the tender period. The Event will be free of charge and shall provide a site visit to several estates to illustrate Southside Housing Association’s landscape maintenance and common close cleaning requirements contained within the tender documentation and challenges of undertaking the landscape maintenance in particular estates including areas of the estates with embankments that will be maintained during the Contract. The Meet the Buyer/Site Visit Event will be attended by the person from Southside Housing Association that is currently responsible for the management of the landscape maintenance and common close cleaning. The Meet the Buyer/Site Visit Event will commence at 10am BST on Wednesday 30th April 2025 at the car park for Mossview Quadrant shown on the MAP for Halfway Park. The Meet the Buyer/Site Visit Event will involve visits to the following estates in sequence; Halfway Park, Cardonald; Queensland Community Garden, Cardonald; and St Andrews Drive, Pollokshields. There will also be an opportunity to visit a sample of properties with Southside Housing Association on Wednesday 30th April where common close cleaning services will be undertaken during the Contract. To record your interest in the Meet the Buyer/Site Visit Event, please email the names of your organisations delegates to alan.shanks@ada-cc.co.uk not later than 12noon BST on Tuesday 29th April 2025. Bidders are asked to keep the maximum number of persons to that will attend the Event on behalf of their organisation to two delegates. Bidders are also advised that Southside Housing Association will not provide transport to delegates between the sites/estates during the Event and Bidders will be required to make their own transportation arrangements. Bidders are also advised that free of charge on street parking is available at each of the sites/estates.. Economic Operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. SPD Question 2D.1.2- Bidders must provide a separate SPD response (Sections A and B of this Part and Part III) for each subcontractor.