Contract No. RP00073 Register Of Pre-qualified Suppliers For Provision Of Parks And Landscaping Services

Brian Stockwell40:32

I'll put the motion. Those in favour? That's unanimous. Nicola? Oh, sorry. So we move on to item number two. And that is contract number RP0072 for a for pre-qualified suppliers for provision of parks and landscaping services.

Thank you, good afternoon Councillors. This is in regards to pre a register-pandemic supplies for parks and landscaping services, I'm November 2022, approximately three years ago, Council approved a register to be formed. There were 16 suppliers on the register who were pre-qualified to perform a number of including landscape construction, landscape planning, and services construction, landscape maintenance, landscape management, turf and care, irrigation and watering, and those supplies could be called on at any time to properly come and do some work for Council under their schedule of rates that's tendered at the time. So the 16 local suppliers have been operating for the last three years. It was seen at the time that we really wanted to encourage local business to develop and support the development of local businesses and those new businesses that we've already got come to the area. So we wanted to expand our list of suppliers. So we went out to tender later last year and we had 22 new respondents respond to that. We went through an evaluation, quite a complex evaluation looking at the their financial capabilities, technical capabilities, management, their workforce health and safety, their environmental sustainability and their schedule of rates. And we're recommending a further 16 local suppliers and other suppliers being put onto our list so that current suppliers already on the list didn't have to retender. Some did because they had some change of ownership so they wanted to update their schedule of rates or they wanted to change some of the details that were on the schedule. But our recommendation is that those 16 essentially remain on the register. And then we add a further onto that pre-qualified supply register for those services. So the recommendation is that Council note the report and approve the contract RP00073 for the Register of Prequalified Suppliers for parks and landscaping services. It will be for an additional 12 months to the 30th of November this year and after that 12 months approve the CDO to extend that for a further 12 months. Been performing effectively.