Merton Fields - Natural Grass Sports Pitches Refurbishment

Merton Fields (adj. St. Lukes School) Natural Grass Sports Pitches Refurbishment Swindon Borough Council invites expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced service providers for the refurbishment of an existing natural grass sports pitch.

Playing field refurbishment of existing natural grass pitches in a public open space, in Swindon, Wiltshire. Refurbishment of existing natural grass pitches to improve their existing poor condition by employing the following operations to bring to good condition for football use: To include: - Spraying out of existing playing surface that is infested with weeds - The poor surface smoothness that is causing surface water ponding over the course of the playing season to be alleviated by laser levelling /regrading/cultivation operations - Mechanical stone burying of the many stones present on the surface (some flint) - Reseeding with specified drought tolerant hard wearing grass mix - 12 months Maintenance Period to include cutting, overseeding and fertilising - Removal of a significant length of widely spaced concrete paving and associated subbase and relevelling We are also requesting a fixed price sum for a potential 2 year additional ongoing maintenance works contract Full details relating to the Works are provided in the tender documents.

Contract Period The contract will be for a period of 2 months, commencing 14th August 2017, or earlier by arrangement if feasible. The relevant tender documents are included within this project webpage as attachments.

The Council's responses to these clarification questions will be uploaded as attachments on the project webpage attachments section. Therefore it is the Contractor's responsibility to check the site regularly for updates to clarifications, as you will not be advised when updates have been made.

In the event of difficulties downloading tender documents, please refer to the named contact David James at djames@swindon.gov.uk. Please note that this project has been advertised in Contracts Finder/ other web portals, however, Supplying the South West Portal is the only portal that includes all the relevant documents required to respond to this opportunity. We would encourage you to click on the 'Register interest' button to help the Council monitor the level of interest in this opportunity (but please be advised that this does not trigger any response from us - you will still need to download and return the relevant documentation from the website before the deadlines to be considered/evaluated.) No Tender submissions will be considered without completing the tender documents in full