00404-AST Tree Maintenance Regional

This is an exciting opportunity to help a national Housing Association shape its Tree Maintenance programme and policy for the future. We would welcome any insights you wish to share that you feel would help us to create the programme that suits our estate and customers.

Please respond to the below questions - your answers should be sent to: [email protected] by midday 11th July 2025. Please use 400 words or fewer per question, and please send an attachment where indicated.

The Delta Access code for this opportunity is: ETSB42G4W9

Please note, this is NOT the Access code for a Tender, but for the PME only.

1. Are you content with the contracts being offered as one single lot each, or would you prefer a set of more than one lot? (If the latter, please propose the basis on which multiple lots might be defined, if different to the following: North North, North Central, West Urban, West Rural, East, South East, South West). Please include any issues you would foresee with capacity for either one national Lot or smaller, geographically split Lots.
2. Are you content with the contracts being split between surveying and management, and with our decision that no contractor could win both a surveying and a management contract? Please provide some details/context for your reasoning.
3. What qualifications and/or accreditations would you reasonably expect the winning bidders for either element to hold as a minimum?
4. Please could you provide an anonymised example of your typical survey data (this can be sent as an attachment)? Do you include tree plans in your reports?
5. Please could you provide an anonymised example of your typical cyclical maintenance schedule (this can be sent as an attachment)?
6. Which pricing model would you recommend for these contracts (see above) and why?
7. Please could you share indicative pricing for surveys (and stage which geographical region this would cover), listing what you would usually include for that cost. We are trying to assess costs to understand the budget requirement so an average value would be useful.
8. Please could you share indicative pricing for cyclical maintenance visits (and stage which geographical region this would cover), listing what you would usually include for that cost. We are trying to assess costs to understand the budget requirement so an average value would be useful.