Official UK procurement notice
Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025
Authority: Cambridge City Council (Local council)
What is being bought3 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionCambridge City Council is seeking to award a framework agreement to Arboricultural Association accredited ‘ARB approved contractors’, for the provision of arboricultural services within the city boundaries.
The council manages over 25,000 trees including those on the highway, communal housing land, open spaces and nature reserves. The framework will encompass a wide range of tree maintenance services, as well as tree planting and establishment services for new trees. Work tasks under the framework will be raised on an ongoing basis and be varied in scope and scale, ranging from one off specialist tree operations to routine maintenance of batches of a thousand or more trees.
The services are grouped into three lots. Each lot will be subject to specific service response times and have a minimum number of suppliers for each lot (subject to satisfactory market response). The lot details are as follows:
Lot 1
- Tree maintenance services – Emergency out of hours Service.
- 3 or more suppliers
- Emergency (Out of normal working hours) service. Service response time on site within 90 minutes
Lot 2
- Tree maintenance services.
- 3 or more suppliers.
- Emergency (In normal working hours) service. Service response time on site within 120 minutes
- High priority. Works to be completed within 24 hours
- Priority service. Works to be completed within 5 days
- Planned maintenance service. Works to be completed to agreed schedules.
Lot 3
- Tree planting and establishment services.
- Works to be completed to agreed schedules.
- 3 or more suppliers.
CPV: Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products · Forestry and logging products
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 9 bids on the busiest of 3 lots · 6 suppliers appointed
Lots and requirements (3)Procurement structure
3 lots · no lot values publishedLot #1Lot 1Awarded
Lot 1
- Tree maintenance services – Emergency out of hours Service.
- 3 or more suppliers
- Emergency (Out of normal working hours) service. Service response time on site within 90 minutes
Lot #2• Tree maintenance servicesAwarded
- Tree maintenance services.
- 3 or more suppliers.
- Emergency (In normal working hours) service. Service response time on site within 120 minutes
- High priority. Works to be completed within 24 hours
- Priority service. Works to be completed within 5 days
- Planned maintenance service. Works to be completed to agreed schedules.
Lot #3- Tree planting and establishment servicesAwarded
- Tree planting and establishment services.
- Works to be completed to agreed schedules.
- 3 or more suppliers
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 26 Oct 2021, 18:12 BST
- Last source update
- 26 Oct 2021, 18:12 BST
- Authority reference
DN516487- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-026836- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02f041Find a Tender
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast14 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 8 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £65,000, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025
- Signed
- 30 Jun 2021
- Value
- £70,000
- Status
- active
Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025
- Signed
- 30 Jun 2021
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025
- Signed
- 30 Jun 2021
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025
- Signed
- 30 Jun 2021
- Value
- £70,000
- Status
- active
Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025
- Signed
- 30 Jun 2021
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025
- Signed
- 30 Jun 2021
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
ambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025
- Signed
- 30 Jun 2021
- Value
- £70,000
- Status
- active
Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025
- Signed
- 30 Jun 2021
- Value
- £70,000
- Status
- active
Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025
- Signed
- 30 Jun 2021
- Value
- £70,000
- Status
- active
Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025
- Signed
- 30 Jun 2021
- Value
- £70,000
- Status
- active
Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025
- Signed
- 30 Jun 2021
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025
- Signed
- 30 Jun 2021
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025
- Signed
- 30 Jun 2021
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025
- Signed
- 30 Jun 2021
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Lot 1 | 9bids · 9 electronic | 9 | — | — |
| 2 · • Tree maintenance services | 9bids · 9 electronic | 8 | — | — |
| 3 · - Tree planting and establishment services | 9bids · 9 electronic | 8 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
12 commercial parties on the notice- Acorn Environmental Management GroupFramework contractor
- Acorn Environmental Management GroupFramework contractor
- Eden Tree Specialists LtdFramework contractor
- Eden Tree Specialists LtdFramework contractor
- Glendale Countryside LtdFramework contractor
- Glendale Countryside LtdFramework contractor
- Glendale Countryside LtdFramework contractor
- John O'Conner (GM) LtdFramework contractor
- Mercer Tree Services LtdFramework contractor
- Mercer Tree Services LtdFramework contractor
Show 2 more suppliers
- SP Landscapes and Tree ContractorsFramework contractor
- SP Landscapes and Tree ContractorsFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.