This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Cambridge City Council is seeking to award a framework agreement to Arboricultural Association accredited ‘ARB approved contractors’, for the provision of arboricultural services within the city boundaries.

The council manages over 25,000 trees including those on the highway, communal housing land, open spaces and nature reserves.

The framework will encompass a wide range of tree maintenance services, as well as tree planting and establishment services for new trees.

Work tasks under the framework will be raised on an ongoing basis and be varied in scope and scale, ranging from one off specialist tree operations to routine maintenance of batches of a thousand or more trees.

The services are grouped into three lots.

Each lot will be subject to specific service response times and have a minimum number of suppliers for each lot (subject to satisfactory market response).

The lot details are as follows: Lot 1 • Tree maintenance services – Emergency out of hours Service. • 3 or more suppliers 1.

Emergency (Out of normal working hours) service.

Service response time on site within 90 minutes Lot 2 • Tree maintenance services. • 3 or more suppliers.

1.

Emergency (In normal working hours) service.

Service response time on site within 120 minutes 2.

High priority.

Works to be completed within 24 hours 3.

Priority service.

Works to be completed within 5 days 4.

Planned maintenance service.

Works to be completed to agreed schedules.

Lot 3 • Tree planting and establishment services. • Works to be completed to agreed schedules. • 3 or more suppliers.