NUN - Tree Service Framework 2019 - 2023 - AWARD

This Framework for Tree services represents a strategy for achieving certain policy aims and objectives for the management and maintenance of trees within parks, open spaces, housing communal areas, cemeteries and closed churchyards, playing fields and other amenity areas throughout the Borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth. The Authority are tendering to implement a single contractor framework agreement. This framework shall commence on the 1st November 2019 for an Initial period of two years, expiring on 31st October 2021. The Authority has two optional one year extensions (a maximum extension period of two years (split 1 + 1) subject to budget, performance (in compliance with the specification and key performance criteria) and a continued requirement. There is no guarantee the Authority will use the framework agreement and therefore there is no guarantee the Authority will commit to spend the estimated framework agreement estimated value. The management and maintenance of trees will involve the following main operations: - Crown Restoration and Formative pruning - Removal of Epicormic Growth - Crown Thinning - Removal of Basal Growth - Crown - Deadwood removal - Ivy/Climber Control - Crown Reduction and Re-shaping - Felling - Pollarding/Re-Pollarding - Stump Treatment and removal - Crown Lifting - Branch tree removal