INVITATION TO TENDER

Hales & Heckingham Parish Council

INVITATION TO TENDER

Grass–cutting Contract 2022 to 2025
Hales & Heckingham Parish Council (HHPC) invites bids for the grass–cutting
contract of the Playing Field, just off School Lane, Hales

Location is indicated in Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/F7wHcpfrxYtAa789A
Bids should commit to regular cutting between 1st April and 31st October with a higher
frequency when there is significant growth. Regular cuts to include mowing all flat areas
and strimming of verges. To also include one early spring and one October strimming of the
slope to the rope bridge and slide at the top end, once wildflowers will not be impacted.
VAT should be identified separately in any bid. Bids should also include any anticipated
uplift in costs year on year, though HHPC would not expect any increase to be above the
Consumer Price Index (CPI) in March, for that year’s season.
Each cut must be notified to the Parish Clerk within 48 hours of the cut and invoices may be
billed after each cut and will be paid at the end of the month following the next Council
meeting at which they can be approved.
Please send fully costed bids by email. Bids are to reach the Parish Clerk by 5.00pm on 3rd
December 2021.
HHPC will confirm the approved contractor at the Council meeting on 14th December and
inform all those who bid by the end of that week.
For any further clarification, please contact the Parish Clerk (Eleanor) via:
clerk@halesandheckingham–pc.gov.uk or via mobile: 07703 124544