St Edmunds College Grounds Maintenance Services Contract

Tender description

SSC Partnership (the Agent) on behalf of St Edmunds College, University of Cambridge are currently out to tender for the provision of Grounds Maintenance Services. This procurement is being run under the open procedure, which is a formal bidding procedure, under which the contract is advertised, and all interested organisation/consortium can bid. This ITT provides further details of the proposal and process for submitting bids. All Bidders are required to complete the ITT document in order to submit their completed Bid. Bids must comprise both the Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) and ITT response documents . All aspects of the ITT should be completed in full and submitted as part of a Bid. The ITT aims to: Provide information to Bidders on the Procurement and the opportunities available; Set out clearly the Authority’s requirements; Provide information on the Authority’s approach to the open procedure process; Set out the deliverables required from Bidders; and Set out the evaluation criteria and weightings that the Authority will use to assess Bids. Following the submission of Bids, the Authority expects to undertake an evaluation process to identify which Bid is the most advantageous tender (MAT) and will be put forward for consideration to be awarded the Contract. The Agent on behalf of the Authority is using the In-Tend portal for the Procurement Process. https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sscpartnership (“the Procurement Portal”). Suppliers that would like to take part in this tender process are invited to "Express Interest" upon which the will be given access to the full tender documentation delivery through this e-tendering system. When the tender documents have been made available involved suppliers will receive notification via email and the tender documents can be accessed from the "My Tenders" area of this website and selecting the "View Details" button of this project. The deadline for submissions of the tender will be 28th September at 12 noon. Arrangements will be made for Companies to visit St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, Mount Pleasant, Cambridge CB3 0BN and view the current facilities to obtain a better understanding of the layout and any other relevant information to help in putting together tender bids. The site visit is planned to take place Friday 11th September 2026 at 9am. Please note that the site visit is not mandatory to submit a bid. Please allow sufficient time to make your return as late returns will not be permitted. Any questions relating to this tender should be made via correspondence on the website and can be addressed to the main contact as shown in the details above.