Community Health Partnerships: The Provision of Ground and Gardening Services

Community Health Partnerships (CHP) are looking to procure suppliers to carry out Ground and Gardening Services for the CHP properties across England.
OJEU link: http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:445048-2017:TEXT:EN:HTML
This tender will be divided into Lots. Each lot will represent one or more Local Improvement Finance Trusts (LIFTCo) held properties. These lots may contain up to seventeen (17) sites. Further details of the make –up of each Lot, time tables, requirements, instructions etcetera, can be found in the tender documents.
All queries and questions must be asked via the ProContract procurement portal (the Portal), no other medium will be accepted.
Scope of the work:
Provision of a horticultural service to designated sites for soft landscaping and some hardstanding on a planned and reactive basis. The service may consist of, but not be limited to the following:

• Maintenance of:
o grassed areas
o trees and hedges
o shrubs
o pots and containers
o tree risk assessments
o tree surgery
o removal and disposal of dead animals
o internal courtyards
o water features
CHP Expectations:
CHP sees high quality Soft FM services as vitally important for our tenants, staff, patients and other visitors. Our intention is to provide safe, compliant services that represent value for money to our tenants.
Lots:
This procurement will be divided into lots. For further information please refer to the tender documents which will be available on the ProContract e-tendering portal (www.LPPSourcing.org).
Additional Information: Approximately 156 properties are currently listed in this tender. The number of properties may change and any future properties added to the lots will be within the scope of the tender.
Supplier selection:
The top six (6) scores per lot will determine the bidders who are invited to the Invitation To Tender stage per lot. In the event that two (2) or more bidders score equal marks, they will be placed jointly. Should this mean that more than six (6) bidders are placed in the top six (6) positions, they will all be invited to tender.