South Cambridgeshire District Council- Cambourne Business Park Grounds Maintenance Contract

The ground maintenance involves general labour activities of:

The grounds maintenance works include a variety of activities such as these general duties:

• Litter pick
• Watering grass and trees as required
• Clearing debris from all bodies of water, maintaining aquatics and keeping reeds in the lakes under control by hand weeding from a boat.
• Sweeping paths and car parks
• Daily checks to lake pumps and equipment - notify of any failure for action by others
• Routine grass cutting and edging including cutting neat circles around all trees in grass
• Selective weed control to all areas of grass
• Topping up bark mulch to all areas
• Checking newt fences
• Weeding shrubs beds by hand to avoid damaging perennials, lifting out compaction caused by pedestrians, application of fertilizers application of pesticides
• Minor pruning to keep sight lines and kerb lines clear
• Pruning all hedges
• Maintain woodland planting, weeding tubes by hand and the balance by applications of roundup. Checking and removing loose tube, maintaining visibility splays
• Depot works - there are no facilities on site for yard storage and waste disposal, so all materials, plant and equipment are removed off site each night.
• Depot works - disposal of waste. All waste, grass cuttings and pruning’s are re-cycled at our Wildmere Farm depot.
• Strimming banks surrounding future plots
• Pruning trees at low level to remove all suckers and epicormic growth

At times there will be additional labour needed to undertake as agreed and appropriate:

• Spraying car parks and hard surfaces with herbicide (3 to 6 times per annum);
• Ditto with algicide including breedon gravel areas
• Removal of dead material from car park joints with a pedestrian operated hard bristle sweeping machine and by hand hoeing, collect and remove arising
• Scarifying and bringing breedon gravel to a tilth, raking out and re-compacting
• Scarifying lawns including the marketing suite grass and fertilizer application
• Gritting and snow clearing (in lieu of beating up)
• Cutting areas of future plots with a 3m cut flail mower (4 times per annum)
• Formative pruning and removing spent herbaceous growth
• Pruning avenue trees at high level with Mobile Elevating Work Platform (MEWP).