Notice Information
Notice Title
Grounds Maintenance - Provision of Machinery
Notice Description
The Highland Council have appointed a single Contractor for the provision of pedestrian, small, medium and high output industrial mowers, on a full maintenance hire basis annually from 01 April 2025 until November 2029.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The Highland Council has appointed a single Contractor for the provision of pedestrian, small, medium and high output industrial mowers, on a full maintenance hire basis annually from 01 April 2025 until November 2029.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000756452
- Publication Source
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Latest Notice
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT516558
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Goods
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
16 - Agricultural machinery
77 - Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services
-
- CPV Codes
16310000 - Mowers
16311000 - Lawnmowers
16311100 - Lawn, park or sports-ground mowers
77112000 - Hire of mowers or agricultural equipment with operator
77314000 - Grounds maintenance services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £2,750,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £2,750,000 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 21 Oct 20241 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 4 Mar 2024Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 28 Mar 20241 years ago
- Contract Period
- 3 Feb 2025 - 30 Nov 2029 4-5 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- THE HIGHLAND COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Gordon Duncan
- Contact Email
- gordon.duncan@highland.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 1463702670
Buyer Location
- Locality
- INVERNESS
- Postcode
- IV3 5BX
- Post Town
- Inverness
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM2 Highlands and Islands
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM20 Highlands and Islands
- Delivery Location
- TLM6 Highlands and Islands
-
- Local Authority
- Highland
- Electoral Ward
- Inverness West
- Westminster Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=FEB497649
Grounds Maintenance - Provision of Machinery - The Highland Council requires a single Contractor for the provision of pedestrian, small, medium and high output industrial mowers, on a full maintenance hire basis annually from 01 April 2025 until November 2029. This date shall be subject to one or two weeks potentially on either side of this date depending on how the season develops. The basic requirement of this Contract is to have well maintained large commercial mowers available to the Authority's Grounds Maintenance teams, with minimal interruption to productivity throughout the grass-cutting season. The Contractor shall use their professional expertise and skill to provide and support their Machinery effectively within the Authority, by means of timeous repair of breakdowns, or the rapid deployment of substitute Machinery. The Contractor shall prepare a maintenance programme detailing when maintenance shall be undertaken. The Contractor must be able to provide all of the required 50 machines and be able to service all 9 geographic areas. -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT516558
Grounds Maintenance - Provision of Machinery - The Highland Council have appointed a single Contractor for the provision of pedestrian, small, medium and high output industrial mowers, on a full maintenance hire basis annually from 01 April 2025 until November 2029.
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