Tender Summary

BBV JV HS2 Route-wide Landscaping Works, Seeding and Maintenance

Buying Organisation

Balfour Beatty Vinci HS2

Contract Value

£50,000,000 to £70,000,000

Tender Description

Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) are looking to appoint multiple Landscape/grounds maintenance contractors of a small to large size that have experience undertaking landscape and or landscape maintenance operations as detailed below.

Works are to be undertaken along the 90km route of the north section of HS2's Phase One route from Long Itchington to the centre of Birmingham.

BBV are keen to hear back from landscape contractors that are qualified, insured, and have proven experience undertaking the listed activities. Essential criteria will be experience working on a construction site and a programme driven environment.

*Please note planting stock will be provided.
**Please also beware that the contract start date is subject to change. Capacity and availability is to be agreed as part of the tender process.

Landscape Construction
Ground Preparation (including but not exclusive to the following)
Weed Control
Vegetation clearance
Subsoil treatment
Topsoil cultivation

Seeding (including but not exclusive to the following)
Conventional seeding
Hydraulic seeding

Turfing operations

Planting (including but not exclusive to the following)
Compost/ fertiliser
Planting pits, beds and trenches
Setting out
Hedgerow planting
Planting Whips, transplants & shrubs
Installation of Stakes, ties, tubes & guards
Planting trees
Mulches, ground preparation
Wildflower planting
Replacement of failed or defective plants

Grass, Bulbs & wildflower maintenance
Species Rich Grassland
Acid Grassland
Heathland
Neutral Grassland
Calcareous grassland
Wet grassland
Ecological mitigation pond
marginal seeding
Grassland Natural regeneration
Amenity grassland
Top dressing & fertiliser
Grass cutting
Species rich grassland/ wildflower areas
Lineside grassland
Grassland natural regeneration
Bulbs and perennials maintenance

Establishment Maintenance for Planting
Watering
Firming
Pruning
Tree accessories
Mulching
Weed control

Maintenance of Established Trees & Shrubs
Weed control
Pruning
Climbing plants
Hedgerow maintenance
Arboriculture
Tree felling
Thinning and coppicing
Scrub control in grass

Management of water bodies
Weed control
Silt
Reedbeds & marginal plants

Tender categories (products & services required)

Landscaping work (CPV 45112700)

Region

United Kingdom (UK)

Buyer Information