Grounds Maintenance Contract (including Assisted Garden Maintenance)

Highland Residential is a social enterprise company, a wholly owner subsidiary of Albyn Housing Society Ltd.

Highland Residential is seeking to procure the services of a suitably qualified and experienced contractor(s) for the provision of grounds maintenance to factored sites and assisted garden maintenance (AGM) for eligible tenants’ gardens. There is also an element of improvements through landscaping.

There are currently 178 sites where grounds maintenance is required, plus 123 assisted garden maintenance, in various locations across the Highlands.

This lot includes 159 sites and 114 gardens (numbers subject to change over the duration of the contract).

The purpose is to instil a sense of pride in where our tenants (and owners) enjoy living. Works include:

• Regular grass cutting and maintenance
• Regular shrub/planted areas and hard surfaces maintenance
• Routine maintenance tasks such as leaf clearance and hedge/shrub pruning.
• Litter pick up and disposal
• Planting of new and replacement shrubs, hedges and bulbs etc.
• The design of landscape features as requested by Highland Residential

Having tidy, well-maintained grounds positively impacts on our tenants’ (and owners’) experience and their overall satisfaction with where they live. It’s important that the work is carried out to a consistently high standard, with each site left well-maintained and clean and tidy.

The contractor will be required to submit Key Performance Indicator information and communicate effectively with Highland Residential. Community benefits are contractually required.. Community benefits will be required.

A site visit is mandatory. If a site visit is not carried out, any bid from that bidder will not be compliant.

Please note that you must request a site visit by 8th January 2025 (12.00 midday). A site visit is mandatory.