Soft Market Testing Questionnaire - community payback projects/schemes for a flexible and responsive garden and estate maintenance service

Soft Market Testing Questionnaire - Community payback projects/schemes for a flexible and responsive garden and estate maintenance service The Council is undertaking Soft Market Testing as a method of gathering market intelligence on the above subject area by engaging with the providers of the services works required. At the same time the Authority is looking for efficiencies and best value.

Scope of Work The provision of a minimum of 6000 hours of unpaid work during a 12 month period that benefits the community. The opportunity may be more appropriate to organisations that work with volunteers or offenders.

Tasks will include:- • Site/garden clearance including weeds, shrubs, trees, fly tipping, leaf litter, litter-picking, removal of green and other waste. • Horticultural projects and improvements as required • Snow Clearance and Gritting • Painting/treating of fencing or other surfaces as required A flexible and responsive Estate Maintenance Service is required, to include tenants’ gardens, communal areas and/or other locations identified by the client. Process for Soft Market Testing The soft market testing will take place from the date of the published advert on the Sandwell In-tend Supplier Portal until Friday 30th September 2016 at 15:00 hours.

This exercise is NOT a call for competition. The Council will be using the In-tend e-Tendering System for this Procurement exercise, please visit https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sandwellmbc to access the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal.

From here you will be able to register your company, express an interest in the opportunity, and gain immediate access to the ITT and other related documents. In Order To View the On-Line Questionnaire and Submit your response, you will be required to` Opt-In`.

Please be mindful that if you are cut and pasting your question responses onto the On-Line Questionnaire that you do so from a notepad document, this is due to the fact that some special characters are not accepted within the On-Line Questionnaire. For a Step by Step user guide to the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal please click on the `Guidance for Suppliers` section of the website.

All procurement responses must be carried out via the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal. If you require furth...

Additional information: Soft Market Testing Questionnaire - Community payback projects/schemes for a flexible and responsive garden and estate maintenance service The Council is undertaking Soft Market Testing as a method of gathering market intelligence on the above given subject area by engaging with the providers of the services required. At the same time the Authority is looking for efficiencies and best value.

Scope of Work The provision of a minimum of 6000 hours of unpaid work during a 12 month period that benefits the community. The opportunity may be more appropriate to organisations that work with volunteers or offenders.

Tasks will include:- • Site/garden clearance including weeds, shrubs, trees, fly tipping, leaf litter, litter-picking, removal of green and other waste. • Horticultural projects and improvements as required • Snow Clearance and Gritting • Painting/treating of fencing or other surfaces as required A flexible and responsive Estate Maintenance Service is required, to include tenants’ gardens, communal areas and/or other locations identified by the client. Process for Soft Market Testing The soft market testing will take place from the date of the published advert on the Sandwell In-tend Supplier Portal until Friday 30th September 2016 at 15:00 hours.

Any enquiries relating to the completion of this document should be submitted as a correspondence on the Sandwell In-tend Supplier Portal no later than 17:30 hours on 22nd September 2016. If you have problems in using the Sandwell In-tend Supplier Portal, please contact the help desk on 0845 557 8079/ +44(0) 114 407 0065, available 9am to 5.30pm or email In-Tend support team at: support@in-tend.com Neither the intention nor the purposes of this soft market testing exercise is to confer any advantage upon its participants in any future procurement process.

This exercise is NOT a call for competition. The Council will be using the In-tend e-Tendering System for this Procurement exercise, please visit https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sandwellmbc to access the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal.

From here you will be able to register your company, express an interest in the opportunity, and gain immediate access to the ITT and other related documents. In Order To View the On-Line Questionnaire and Submit your response, you will be required to` Opt-In`.

Please be mindful that if you are cut and pasting your question responses onto the On-Line Questionnaire that you do so from a notepad document, this is due to the fact that some special characters are not accepted within the On-Line Questionnaire. For a Step by Step user guide to the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal please click on the `Guidance for Suppliers` section of the website.

All procurement responses must be carried out via the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal. If you require further assistance in respect of the system please contact the In-tend support team on 0844 272 8810. Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sandwellmbc/aspx/