Grounds Maintenance Services

Magenta Living is seeking Tenders for their Grounds Maintenance Services under the EU Restricted Procedure. With approximately 12,400 properties, Magenta Living (WPH) is the largest Registered Provider of affordable housing in Wirral. The assets owned and managed by Magenta Living (ML) includes properties for residential use, buildings for a variety of purposes and substantial areas of land.

For the purposes of this tendering exercise the definition of Magenta's land or grounds includes open space, open plan gardens, gardens and other areas associated with enclosed sheltered and supported housing schemes, low rise and high rise flats shrubbed areas and residential gardens.

The Services are to be divided into 3 Lots - details of the Lots can be found within the Procurement documents. Magenta Living wishes to enter into separate four (4) year Contract(s) - 1 for each Lot. Each Contract has an option to extend by up to a further 2 years plus a further 2 years at Magenta Living's discretion. The total duration of each Contract could be up to 8 years.

The target commencement date for provision of the services is 2nd January 2018. Suppliers wishing to tender for these services must do so via the Magenta Living e-tendering portal https://procontract.due-north.com/register. Any queries or correspondence regarding this procurement must be sent via the messaging facility on the portal linked to this tendering exercise. Direct emails or phone calls to Magenta Living staff will not be acceptable.

Additional information: the procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access at https://procontract.due-north.com/register. Interested parties must register their interest in this procurement via the ProContract site at https://www.housingprocurement.com/ and complete and submit their SQ return together with any supporting information requested by the closing date stated in the OJEU Contract Notice 2017/S 087-169993 Magenta Living have published the whole of the ITT documents for transparency purposes in accordance with the Public Contracts Regs 2015. However this is a 2 stage procurement process, requiring completion and submission of the SQ only at this 1st stage of the tendering process, (Parts 1 and 2 of which may be in the form of the ESPD). Only bidders shortlisted following evaluation of SQ's will be Invited to Tender.

At this stage bidders are not required to complete the Tender Response Questionnaires or Pricing Schedule