Issue details

This report seeks approval to secure the budget and award the tender for the Council’s Tree Maintenance Services.  It is anticipated the Contract term will be a four year period (including an optional 2 years) commencing May 2017.

 Following discussions with the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Procurement Partnership in 2016 it was agreed, due to limited resources within the Borough and District Councils, that it was not feasible to run a collaborative tender in respect of Tree Maintenance Services.

Therefore, it was proposed in-house that Fareham Borough Council runs its own tender and in January 2017, the Director of Finance and Resources gave approval to go out to tender for the Council’s Tree Maintenance Services.

During the tender, published via the South East Business Portal, the Council received nineteen (19) compliant tender responses from suppliers based throughout the UK. The evaluation panel consisted of the Principal Tree Officer and the Tree Officer. The scores and ranking for all nineteen (19) tenders received are represented in the confidential Appendix A attached to this report.