Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
SOL-Schools Grounds Maintenance DPS
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This is a large award for Agriculture, Forestry & Horticulture — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 3,317 valued Agriculture, Forestry & Horticulture tenders in our corpus.
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council is to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) covering Schools' Grounds Maintenance Services which will be open for use by Schools and other educational establishments within the Borough of Solihull.
This broadly covers:General Grounds Maintenance, Maintenance of Trees, Maintenance and Repair of Artificial Surfaces 2G/3G/4G including Sports pitches.
The DPS will be divided into 18 Lots.
Each Lot will cover a geographical ward within the Borough of Solihull and within those wards will be a number of schools.
Suppliers can apply join one of more Lots, or may wish to be considered for Lot 18 which covers all Lots and hence all schools within Solihull.
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