Council Minutes - Town of Cambridge

COUNCIL MINUTES
TUESDAY 28 AUGUST 2012
CR12.119 PROVISION OF HORTICULTURAL SERVICES RFT 17-12
PURPOSE OF REPORT:
To select a preferred tenderer to award a contract for the Provision of Horticultural Services
for a period of 3 years commencing 1 September 2012.
BACKGROUND:
The Town engages the services of two organisations to supplement its day to day
infrastructure parks operations for the provision of garden maintenance and lawn mowing
services throughout the Town of Cambridge.
To improve this service, a new tender "Provision of Horticultural Services" has been
developed to replace the two existing contracts, RFQ 03-11 Provision of Garden
Maintenance Services and RFQ 04-11 Provision of Lawn Mowing Services, which are due to
expire 31 August 2012.
This new tender is for the provision of horticultural services including turf maintenance,
upkeep of established garden beds and pruning of plants and restoration of established
garden beds as required.
The value of the works completed, under the current contracts, in the last three financial
years from 2009/2010 to 2011/2012 was approximately $250,000 which averages
approximately $83,000 per year.
DETAILS:
Tender Development/Advertising
The tender was advertised in the West Australian newspaper on Saturday, 26 May 2012.
Tender Closure/Tenders Received
The tender closed at 2:00pm on Tuesday, 19 June 2012 with tenders received from the
following organisations:-
• South City Lawns;
• Martin Cuthbert Landscapes;
• Total Eden Pty Ltd trading as Elegant Landscapes;
• Manicured Lawns;
• Landscape Systems;
• Active Foundation Inc trading as Active Property Care;
• LD Total; and
• Plantech Ground Maintenance.
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