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# Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cambridge-city-council-framework-agreement-for-arboricultural-services-2021-2025-ocds-h6vhtk-02f041). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Cambridge City Council: "Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025". Published status: complete. Framework Ceiling: Value not published. 3 published lots. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Cambridge City Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/cambridge-city-council-ons-e07000008)
- **Framework Ceiling (notional):** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 3
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products, Forestry and logging products
- **Delivery Location:** UKH12
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02f041`

## Before you bid
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- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
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- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cambridge-city-council-framework-agreement-for-arboricultural-services-2021-2025-ocds-h6vhtk-02f041#tl-md)

## Description
Cambridge 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
1. Emergency (Out of normal working hours) service. Service response time on site within 90 minutes
Lot 2
• Tree maintenance services.
• 3 or more suppliers.
1. Emergency (In normal working hours) service. Service response time on site within 120 minutes
2. High priority. Works to be completed within 24 hours
3. Priority service. Works to be completed within 5 days
4. 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.

## Lots (3)
### Lot 1: Lot 1
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 03000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKH

- **Description:** Lot 1
• Tree maintenance services – Emergency out of hours Service.
• 3 or more suppliers
1. Emergency (Out of normal working hours) service. Service response time on site within 90 minutes

### Lot 2: Lot 2
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 03000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKH

- **Description:** • Tree maintenance services.
• 3 or more suppliers.
1. Emergency (In normal working hours) service. Service response time on site within 120 minutes
2. High priority. Works to be completed within 24 hours
3. Priority service. Works to be completed wi...

### Lot 3: Lot 3
- **Lot id:** `3`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 03000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKH

- **Description:** - Tree planting and establishment services.
• Works to be completed to agreed schedules.
• 3 or more suppliers

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (14)
- **Award:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Award id: `026836-2021-DN516487-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Acorn Environmental Management Group**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-134720`
  - Value: £70,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Award id: `026836-2021-DN516487-10`
  - Supplier(s): **Mercer Tree Services Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-64662`
  - Value: £65,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Award id: `026836-2021-DN516487-11`
  - Supplier(s): **SP Landscapes and Tree Contractors**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-117553`
  - Value: £65,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Award id: `026836-2021-DN516487-12`
  - Supplier(s): **Glendale Countryside Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-186774`
  - Value: £70,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Award id: `026836-2021-DN516487-13`
  - Supplier(s): **Mercer Tree Services Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-64662`
  - Value: £65,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Award id: `026836-2021-DN516487-14`
  - Supplier(s): **SP Landscapes and Tree Contractors**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-117553`
  - Value: £65,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** ambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Award id: `026836-2021-DN516487-2`
  - Supplier(s): **Eden Tree Specialists Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-32817`
  - Value: £70,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Award id: `026836-2021-DN516487-3`
  - Supplier(s): **Glendale Countryside Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-186774`
  - Value: £70,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Award id: `026836-2021-DN516487-4`
  - Supplier(s): **Mercer Tree Services Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-64662`
  - Value: £70,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Award id: `026836-2021-DN516487-5`
  - Supplier(s): **SP Landscapes and Tree Contractors**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-117553`
  - Value: £70,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Award id: `026836-2021-DN516487-6`
  - Supplier(s): **Acorn Environmental Management Group**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-134720`
  - Value: £65,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Award id: `026836-2021-DN516487-7`
  - Supplier(s): **Eden Tree Specialists Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-32817`
  - Value: £65,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Award id: `026836-2021-DN516487-8`
  - Supplier(s): **Glendale Countryside Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-186774`
  - Value: £65,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Award id: `026836-2021-DN516487-9`
  - Supplier(s): **John O'Conner (GM) Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-16518`
  - Value: £65,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (14)
- **Contract:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Signed Value: £70,000
  - Signed Date: 29/06/2021

- **Contract:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Signed Value: £65,000
  - Signed Date: 29/06/2021

- **Contract:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Signed Value: £65,000
  - Signed Date: 29/06/2021

- **Contract:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Signed Value: £70,000
  - Signed Date: 29/06/2021

- **Contract:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Signed Value: £65,000
  - Signed Date: 29/06/2021

- **Contract:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Signed Value: £65,000
  - Signed Date: 29/06/2021

- **Contract:** ambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Signed Value: £70,000
  - Signed Date: 29/06/2021

- **Contract:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Signed Value: £70,000
  - Signed Date: 29/06/2021

- **Contract:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Signed Value: £70,000
  - Signed Date: 29/06/2021

- **Contract:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Signed Value: £70,000
  - Signed Date: 29/06/2021

- **Contract:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Signed Value: £65,000
  - Signed Date: 29/06/2021

- **Contract:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Signed Value: £65,000
  - Signed Date: 29/06/2021

- **Contract:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Signed Value: £65,000
  - Signed Date: 29/06/2021

- **Contract:** Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2021 - 2025 (active)
  - Signed Value: £65,000
  - Signed Date: 29/06/2021

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F026836-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-10-26T17:12:27.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T23:10:50.349Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02f041