CP1376-16 Grounds Maintenance Contract

Devon County Council seeks to engage a single grounds maintenance contractor to provide grounds maintenance services for approximately 70 Devon County Council corporate premises across the county of Devon. The Devon County Council estate comprises corporate office buildings, together with some educational units, Children’s Centres, Social Care Units, and Libraries.

Most establishments incorporate at least the following areas of work: • Regular Grass cutting • Rough Grass cutting • Hedges • Shrub beds (especially standard shrub beds and shrub bed edging) • Direct labour • Miscellaneous - weed killing, and moss and algae treatment. The contract will be for a five year period from the 1st of January 2017 until the 31st of December 2021 DCC will have the ability to execute a break clause after 12 months if in DCC’s opinion the performance to the contract has been poor and many complaints have been received in relation to timescales of service, delivery of service or management of the contract. DCC will have also have the ability to execute a break clause after 36 months