# Chemical Control of Weeds

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [SOUTHAMPTON CITY COUNCIL](/buyers/southampton-city-council/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Environmental Husbandry Limited
- Award value: £331,000
- Tender value: £3,000,000
- Award date: 9 May 2019
- Published: 10 May 2019
- Contract start: 10 May 2019
- Contract end: 30 April 2024
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: fb7261a4-a75a-4536-b64a-4d8b90e69e75-288623
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-aecfb4fb-450c-47d5-a6c5-e41d2c3dab1b

## Description

Southampton City Council \(the Council\) is seeking a suitably experienced and qualified contractor to undertake weed spraying and control services to highways and footpaths across the Councils area of responsibility\. The appointed contractor being expected to complete two \(2\) Weed Spraying applications per annum, with an option of a third\. The area of highway/footway to be treated is approximately 562 KM\. \(At the last centre-line measurement, the length of highway in Southampton was 562 kilometres, and recent measurement indicates that there are approximately 488,574m2 of other surfaces within the City that will require treatment\)\. The areas covered by this Contract include but are not limited to the following; kerb edges and channels, rear of footways and abutting brick, stone or other types of wall or fence, surfaced footways, traffic islands and splitter islands, paved roundabouts or paved sections of roundabouts, around the base of street furniture including safety fencing, pedestrian guard railing, tree bases on footways including raised cobbled areas, hard central reservations\. The Council is also working to conform to the EU's proposals for the Water Framework Directive and the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/fb7261a4-a75a-4536-b64a-4d8b90e69e75-288623)