Parks and Landscape Maintenance Services Contract

Parks and Landscape Maintenance Services Contract – London

The parks and landscape maintenance services include 28 parks within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

United Kingdom-London: Parks maintenance services

2020/S 084-199998

Contract notice

Services

Legal Basis:

Directive 2014/24/EU

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)Name and addresses

Official name: The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Postal address: Town Hall, Hornton Street
Town: London
NUTS code: UKI
Postal code: W8 7NX
Country: United Kingdom
Contact person: Sarah Brion or Monica Castelino
E-mail: sarah.brion1@rbkc.gov.uk

Internet address(es):Main address: www.capitalesourcing.com

Address of the buyer profile: www.capitalesourcing.com

I.2)Information about joint procurement

I.3)Communication

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: www.capitalesourcing.com

Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via: www.capitalesoucing.com

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the abovementioned address

I.4)Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

I.5)Main activity

General public services

Section II: Object

II.1)Scope of the procurement

II.1.1)Title:

Parks and Landscape Maintenance Services Contract

II.1.2)Main CPV code

77313000

II.1.3)Type of contract

Services

II.1.4)Short description:

The parks and landscape maintenance services include 28 parks within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, 10 of which have green flag awards. Two cemeteries located out of borough including bereavement services. Playground inspection and maintenance, sports facilities and booking services. The maintenance of 60 street planters, roundabouts and other open spaces across the borough.

II.1.5)Estimated total value

Value excluding VAT: 44 850 000.00 GBP

II.1.6)Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: no

II.2)Description

II.2.1)Title:

II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)

50870000

77310000

77314000

77320000

79715000

98371111

II.2.3)Place of performance

NUTS code: UKI

Main site or place of performance:

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

II.2.4)Description of the procurement:

This contract includes parks maintenance responsibility for 28 parks, two cemeteries and over 60 additional green spaces, significant to the Council’s green space portfolio; including supply of park keepers and gardeners, waste management, maintenance and improvement of horticultural features, sports facility management (including hire and programmes), conservation and habitat maintenance and creation, cemetery maintenance and bereavement service function. The core aim of the contract is to maintain the Royal Borough’s parks, open spaces, cemeteries, planters and grass verges to a high standard and meet the Council’s long term environmental objectives including delivering its Parks Strategy (2016-2025) and becoming carbon neutral by 2030.

II.2.5)Award criteria

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

II.2.6)Estimated value

II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system

Start: 01/04/2021

End: 31/03/2036

This contract is subject to renewal: no

II.2.9)Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited

Envisaged minimum number: 3

Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:

The candidates will be short listed to a minimum of three at the ISIT and negotiation stage, as detailed in the procurement documents.

II.2.10)Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: no

II.2.11)Information about options

Options: no

II.2.12)Information about electronic catalogues

II.2.13)Information about European Union funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

II.2.14)Additional information

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1)Conditions for participation

III.1.1)Suitability to pursue the professional activity, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

III.1.2)Economic and financial standing

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents

III.1.3)Technical and professional ability

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents

III.1.5)Information about reserved contracts

III.2)Conditions related to the contract

III.2.1)Information about a particular profession

III.2.2)Contract performance conditions:

III.2.3)Information about staff responsible for the performance of the contract

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Description

IV.1.1)Type of procedure

Competitive procedure with negotiation

IV.1.3)Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system

IV.1.4)Information about reduction of the number of solutions or tenders during negotiation or dialogue

Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated

IV.1.5)Information about negotiation

The contracting authority reserves the right to award the contract on the basis of the initial tenders without conducting negotiations

IV.1.6)Information about electronic auction

IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: yes

IV.2)Administrative information

IV.2.1)Previous publication concerning this procedure

IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

Date: 27/05/2020

Local time: 17:00

IV.2.3)Estimated date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

Date: 15/06/2020

IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:

English

IV.2.6)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

Tender must be valid until: 12/04/2021

IV.2.7)Conditions for opening of tenders

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about recurrence

This is a recurrent procurement: no

VI.2)Information about electronic workflows

VI.3)Additional information:

VI.4)Procedures for review

VI.4.1)Review body

Official name: Royal Courts of Justice
Postal address: The Strand, Holborn
Town: London
Postal code: WC2A 2LL
Country: United Kingdom

VI.4.2)Body responsible for mediation procedures

Official name: Royal Courts of Justice
Postal address: The Strand, Holborn
Town: London
Postal code: WC2A 2LL
Country: United Kingdom

VI.4.3)Review procedure

VI.4.4)Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:

27/04/2020