Decision details

The report seeks approval to award the Framework for the Council’s Tree Maintenance Services.  The Framework term will be a four-year period commencing May 2023.

Works to Council owned trees are undertaken for the Council by external suppliers.  Following a previous tendering exercise in 2017, the Council developed a Tree Maintenance Framework containing approved external suppliers who could undertake tree work.

The current Tree Maintenance Framework expires in April 2023 and a tender has recently been undertaken to ensure a Tree Maintenance Framework is in place for the period from May 2023-April 2027.

During the tender the Council received thirteen (13) compliant tender responses from suppliers based throughout the southern region.  The scores and ranking for all thirteen (13) tenders received are presented in the confidential Appendix A attached to the report

RESOLVED that the Executive:

(a)  agrees to award the Framework to the top 8 scoring tenderers, as set out in the Confidential Appendix A to the report; and

(b)  notes that the increased cost of the suppliers is likely to require an increase in the annual Tree Management budget of between £23,380 and £37,120, which will need to be considered during the next budget setting process.