Framework for Watercourse Maintenance

The Framework for Watercourse Maintenance will encompass five Measured Term Contracts to deliver watercourse maintenance in the following Contract Areas: A. WME1 (Armagh); B. WME2 (Lisburn and Greater Belfast); C. WMW1 (Coleraine); D. WMW2 (Omagh); and E. WMW3 (Fermanagh). Within each Contract Area, the works to be undertaken under this Contract may include, but not be limited to, the following Principal Work Activities which are provided by way of example: A. Maintenance of Watercourses; B. Riverbank & Flood Defence maintenance and scrub clearance; C. Tree felling/removal; and D. Provision of labour/plant. Further ancillary works may be asked of the successful Supplier such as: A. Treatment of aquatic weed/invasive species. Within each Contract Area, the successful Supplier will be required to carry out any such works instructed by a Works Order, issued under the provisions of the Contract. Such works will require a standard of works delivery consistent with that defined in the Procurement Documents. Reimbursement to the successful Supplier for such works will be paid generally on the basis of an applicable Schedule of Rates and Prices (SoRP), adjusted in line with permitted price-fluctuation-factor provisions. For each Contract Area, it is likely that the successful Supplier will be required to work at more than one location at any one time in order to meet the requirements of the programme of work for each Contract Area. Successful Suppliers will be expected to have sufficiently skilled and available resources necessary to meet the requirements of such a programme and will be required to include in its rates and prices for the inevitable peaks and troughs that will be inherent in any such programme. Such peaks and troughs may result from a variety of circumstances, not all within the control of the Department. The financial limits for individual Works Orders under this Contract shall generally be between £1 – £250,000 GBP.