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Cambridge City Council - Framework Agreement for Arboricultural Services 2025

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BuyerCambridge City Council
StatusClosed
Deadline20 Feb 2025
Value£2,674,000
Published9 Jan 2025

What is being bought

Cambridge City Council is seeking to award a framework agreement to Arboricultural Association accredited ‘ARB approved contractors’, for the provision of arboricultural services: • Lots 1 & 2: Tree maintenance services: For both Lots, Suppliers should be able to deal with a range of tree maintenance operations varying in their complexity and situation. They should include; pruning, dismantling, felling, stump removal, tree inspections and reports, working adjacent to the Highway, working in public spaces, and working along watercourses. • Lot 3: Tree planting and establishment services: Applicants for this Lot should be able to deal with a range of tree planting operations varying in their complexity and situations (e.g. Highways and public open space). Applicants should be able to deal with planting schedules containing up to 250 standard trees within specified timescales. The planting of larger sizes of trees may sometimes be required.

Delivery location

UKH12 · UKH12 · UKH12

Categories

Agricultural and horticultural products 03100000Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services 77000000Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services 77000000

Lot details

Tree maintenance services – Emergency out of hours Service

Cambridge City Council is seeking to award a framework agreement to Arboricultural Association accredited ‘ARB approved contractors’, for the provision of arboricultural services: • Lots 1 (Emergency out of hours): Tree maintenance services: Suppliers should be able to deal with a range of tree maintenance operations varying in their complexity and situation. They should include; pruning, dismantling, felling, stump removal, tree inspections and reports, working adjacent to the Highway, working in public spaces, and working along watercourses.

Statusactive
Value£252,000

Tree maintenance services – Normal working hours Service

• Lots 2: Tree maintenance services (normal working hours): Suppliers should be able to deal with a range of tree maintenance operations varying in their complexity and situation. They should include; pruning, dismantling, felling, stump removal, tree inspections and reports, working adjacent to the Highway, working in public spaces, and working along watercourses.

Statusactive
Value£1,862,000

Tree planting and establishment services

Tree planting and establishment services

Statusactive
Value£560,000

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural servicesNot published
2Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural servicesNot published
3Agricultural and horticultural products, Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 03. The category anchor is Agricultural and horticultural products (03100000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 037935 median · 20.7 average (389 of 793 with a bid count)4.8 average (405 of 793 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer1126 median · 126 average (1 of 1 with a bid count)12 average (1 of 1 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UKH123126 median · 126 average (1 of 3 with a bid count)12 average (1 of 3 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)555.5 median · 5.5 average (2 of 55 with a bid count)2.5 average (2 of 55 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementYes
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNo
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriasuitability
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04ce8d
Latest release ID000650-2025
Latest release timestampThu Jan 09 2025 11:55:59 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-02-20T12:00:00Z
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: start2025-02-20T12:00:00Z
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailshttps://procontract.due-north.com/Advert/Index?advertId=936c2330-b4c9-ef11-8133-005056b64545
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£2,674,000
Tender lots in source3
Tender items in source3
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release2

Notice history

DateEventReference
9 Jan 2025tender000650-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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