Building Cleaning Services

Concepts

• cleaning services
• carlisle
• building cleaning services
• building
• cleaning
• corporate properties
• day care centres
• consolidation
• archives
• libraries

Location

Cumbria:

Description

The Council has in place an existing contract for cleaning services at Corporate Properties across the county. This includes Offices, Day Care Centres, Libraries, Archives, Depot’s etc. This will now be re-procured. At present there are approx. 70 properties within the existing contract however, this number may reduce over the next three years as the Council continues its programme of consolidation of assets.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 90910000 - Cleaning services

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Renewals are not available.

Other Information

Please see the Tender Documents for further information available via The Chest. https://www.the-chest.org.uk/ . For support using the Chest, please contact Proactis, using the Supplier Support area. For clarifications, please ensure all correspondence is via The Chest using the messages area. ** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** Suppliers wishing to express an interest and obtain access to the tender documents should go to www.the-chest.org.uk and click on current opportunities from the navigation area on the left of the screen. On the next screen enter the contract Reference (DN763144) in the box labelled 'contains' then click search. Click on the Blue link for the contract title to view the opportunity. To express an interest you will need to login. If you are not already registered on the www.the-chest.org.uk you will need to return to the home page and click on Register. Register FREE link in the navigation area on the left of the screen. Registration is free of charge and your username and password will be emailed to you. Cumberland Council is fully supportive of all aspects of diversity including ethnicity, race, religion, age, disability and sexual orientation. In this respect Cumberland Council welcomes expressions of interest from ethnic minority, disabled and other diverse business communities and the voluntary sector. Economic operators are therefore required to fully comply with all statutory obligations/applicable legislation and there will be a requirement to participate in the Authority's supplier audits on all aspects of diversity. The Contracting Authority expressly reserves the right: (i) not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice; and (ii) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition; and in no circumstances will the Contracting Authority be liable for any costs incurred by the candidates. Any expenditure, work or effort undertaken prior to contract award is accordingly a matter solely for the commercial judgement of potential suppliers. The contracting authority reserve the right to use any electronic portal during the life of the agreement. The value provided in Section II.1.5 is only an estimate. The contract term is a maximum of 4 years, this is based on an initial 2 year term plus 2 optional extension of up to 12 months. There is an obligation within this contract for the Service Provider to pay Service Provider Staff engaged in the delivery of the Services the Real Living Wage.