# Framework Contract for Mulching of Felled sites

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [FORESTRY COMMISSION](/buyers/forestry-commission/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: V\.A Services Ltd
- Award value: £360,000
- Tender value: £360,000
- Award date: 3 August 2016
- Published: 18 November 2016
- Contract start: 3 October 2016
- Contract end: 2 October 2019
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 0ce63ee2-3ec6-4521-be6b-ae982aca801b-97527
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-b2b930ae-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

The Forestry Commission has awarded a contract for the mulching of all vegetation, stumps, brash, tops, offcuts and windblown trees on previously felled area\. Stumps do not need to be fully removed but mulched to ground level to allow forest tractors a safe operating surface\. All material on site to be mulched down to a medium tilth\. In some areas it may be necessary to make repeated passes to ensure that a medium tilth of mulch is left on woodland floor\. There must be minimal disturbance of the soil profile and mulched material should be spread evenly over the surface\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0ce63ee2-3ec6-4521-be6b-ae982aca801b-97527)