Grounds Maintenance Services Contract (ERP - 2122 -201)

A comprehensive grounds maintenance service to deliver agreed standards in all the Borough’s parks, open spaces and green space on Brent Housing Management estates, while maximising opportunities for biodiversity and climate resilient planting;

This comprehensive Service will include various types of grass management, including meadow management in Parks and some Highways Verges and Roundabouts, shrub bed management, water course and pond maintenance, weed removal, hedge cutting and bulb planting;

The Services are to be provided on a Neighbourhood basis; allowing for all areas of work across all streams, to be provided with the benefit of local knowledge and experience;

The provision of a Grounds Maintenance Service for all grass verges and shrub beds on public highways and roundabouts;

Maintenance of communal pathways and perimeter hedges in all allotment sites;

Basic maintenance of trees within parks, open spaces, allotments and BHM land; including epicormic growth removal, overhanging branch removal and fallen branch clearing, but not including crown reduction, pruning or large-scale removal of trees;

Sports pitch management and maintenance service that meets the needs of users and the applicable standards set by the relevant sport governing bodies;

Management of hard surfaces across all agreed areas, to include removal of weeds, algae and moss;

Litter picking, including the removal of dog waste and needles, on all green spaces specified and bin emptying services in parks and open spaces and Churchyards;

Identification of fly-tipped waste in parks and open spaces to allow for clearance by the Street Cleansing Contractor;

Emergency tree works in parks as result of storm damage, such as making safe any areas surrounding a storm damaged tree or removing a dangerously overhanging branch;

Mowing of grass, litter picking, hedge trimming, basic tree maintenance works and strimming around gravestones and memorials in three Churchyards;

Recycling of all green waste to provide compost and soil improver that can be used at any locations within this Contract;

Transportation of all green waste from parks and open spaces, Brent Housing Management green spaces and highways verges, as well as all litter to Authority Delivery Sites or other agreed disposal sites - if recycling of garden waste at the main depot or other location is not available.

Transportation of all litter, recyclables and general waste from parks and open spaces, Brent Housing Management green spaces and highways verges, to Authority Delivery Sites;

Provision and management of a Management Information System (MIS) including monitoring and reporting of Service performance information at intervals specified in the Contract;

Timely and accurate monitoring and reporting of Performance Standard Failures and Performance Deductions in accordance with the Performance Management Framework;

Other services including:

a. Supporting the Authority with Customer care and satisfaction;

b. Prompt provision of information to allow the Authority to address Service requests and complaints; and

c. Utilisation and management of the Depots.

Provision of all other Services in the Specification, including any provision of plant (equipment and specialist vehicles) and Variation agreed during the Services Period, in accordance with the Contract. Additional information: The estimated value of the contract is circa. £43m in nominal terms including indexation over 16 years (i.e. the length of the main term plus the maximum length of any extensions).