Leicestershire County Council Facilities Management

Tender description

The Council is undertaking a procurement exercise to appoint either a single Supplier or multiple Suppliers for Facilities Management (FM) services to its entire corporate property estate across Leicestershire. This ‘Corporate Provision’ is funded via the Council’s own internal budgets. The successful supplier(s) will also deliver services to the Council’s external customers (e.g. schools, academies, district councils, police forces, fire brigades etc.) The Council effectively trades these FM services to generate income and this ‘Traded Provision’ is funded via the individual budgets of the external customers. These external customers are located within Leicestershire and the East and West Midlands. This contract will be split into 2 sperate contracts (Contract 1 and Contract 2). For each contract, the 6 highest scorers for each lot will progress to the 2nd stage of the process and will be invited to tender. The Council reserves the right to progress less than 6 bidders to stage 2 at its discretion. Should any of the top 6 bidders not meet the minimum requirements, the Council reserves the right to progress less than 6 bidders to stage 2. The value is based on historic 7 year data, Due to the service being demand led the Council does not guarantee any level of work and the value should only be used a s a guide. Lot 1: Lot 1 - Window Cleaning Contract 1 - Lot 1 - Window Cleaning, External & internal cleaning at various heights to numerous Leicestershire County Council locations and partner sites. additional one-off requests for cleaning of external & internal canopies and similar structures which may include use of powered access equipment. Lot 2: Lot 2 – Waste, Contract 1 - Lot 2 – Waste - Schedule collections at a large proportion of Leicestershire County Council venues including school kitchens, partner sites Schools & Academies, reactive & one-off collections for specialist removal & public events. Lot 3: Lot 3 – Specialist Cleaning. Contract 1 - Lot 3 – Specialist Cleaning.- Majority of works to facilitate high level cleaning of catering kitchens (walls ceiling, canopies for example), reactive requests may include summer cleaning during school closures, clearing gutters & flat roofs, sharps removals, House clearances, Graffiti removal, illegally disposed waste, Infection control cleaning, Solar Panel cleaning. Lot 4: Lot 4 Cleaning, Housekeeping & Laundry Services Contract 2 - Lot 4 – Building Cleaning, Housekeeping & Laundry Services - Cleaning to a variety of Leicestershire County Council public & non-public buildings, LCC partner sites including schools & Academies, Police & Fire Service locations, the latter requiring a Housekeeping & Laundry service Lot 5: Lot 5 Grounds Maintenance Contract 2 - Lot 5 - Grounds Maintenance,- Horticultural & playing field service to numerous Leicestershire County Council locations, LCC partner sites including Schools & Academies, Police & Fire service, Councils, National Forest sites Lot 6: Lot 6 – Security & Key Holding, Contract 2 - Lot 6 – Security & Key Holding - Keyholding, static, out of hours helpdesk cover and reactive services to Leicestershire County Council buildings & locations, plus partner sites Schools & Academies, Community Libraries