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UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX

T954 - Periodic Contract Cleaning Framework

Environment & WasteCPV 90000000 90900000 90910000 90911000 90919000
Value£600k
Awarded8 Mar 2023
Published10 May 2023
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£600ktotal contract value
median £195k
this tender£0£5.0m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Environment & Waste band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 11,894 valued Environment & Waste tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The University of Essex wishes to establish a new framework agreement for periodic contract cleaning across three lots that will ensure that the University has access to a number of experienced, capable and good value cleaning contractors to meet the cleaning needs that arise at various points during the academic year.

Details of individual lots are as follows; Lot 1: Summer Period (July & September): Following end of tenancy move out of undergraduate students (July) and postgraduate students (September).

Deep cleaning to bedrooms with and without ensuite bathrooms and scheduled "sparkle" cleaning to communal areas; consisting of shared bathrooms, communal kitchens, foyers, lobby's, stairwells and corridors.

Lot 2: Summer Period (July - August): Regular service cleaning to residential areas during Event Essex conference period alongside our in-house cleaning team.

Bidders may be required to provide additional staff for the last week of September.

Lot 3: Termly office cleaning in academic and administrative areas three times per academic year (December, April & August).

Please note the current academic year runs from September 2022 to August 2023, therefore call off order no.1 for lot 3 will be for August 2023 only.

Bidders to note that there is a maximum period of 4 weeks to complete this work, there is no minimum period.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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The University of Essex wishes to establish

The University of Essex wishes to establish a new framework agreement for periodic contract cleaning across three lots that will ensure that the University has access to a number of experienced, capable and good value cleaning contractors to meet the cleaning needs that arise at various points during the academic year.

02

Bidders may be required to provide additional

Bidders may be required to provide additional staff for the last week of September.

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