APX038 Grounds Maintenance Services for Apex Housing
- Buyer
- APEX HOUSING ASSOCIATION
- Value
- £1,824,000
- Closes
- 27 November 2026
- Where
- LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland
- Type
- Open tender
In plain English
Apex Housing Association is seeking contractors to maintain the grounds of its housing sites across Northern Ireland, including planned routine work and work ordered as needed. The work is split into five geographical lots, each awarded as a separate contract with an initial term of 24 months and options to extend for up to two further 12-month periods.
What the buyer wants
• Provide planned and discretionary grounds maintenance at the Apex sites within the lot or lots you bid for, as set out in the Scope, Price List and Site Plans. • Carry out remedial and emergency grounds maintenance when instructed through Service Orders, noting that no minimum volume or value of this work is guaranteed. • Accept a vacant lot if Apex offers one during the contract, where you submitted a compliant tender for that lot, with a maximum of three lots per supplier and subject to your acceptance and capacity.
Lots
- Lot 1 - Derry City and Strabane
- Fermanagh and Omagh and Mid Ulster
- Causeway Coast and Glens and Mid and East Antrim
- Belfast and Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Armagh, Ards, Newry and Lisburn areas
Requirements
What could rule a small business out (our reading of the notice, written with AI): Each lot covers a large cluster of sites (for example, Lot 1 includes 18 general needs developments and two multi-occupancy schemes, and Lot 4 includes 37 developments plus other premises), the contract can run for up to 48 months, and emergency work can be ordered at any time, so a small firm without the staff and equipment to cover many sites reliably across a whole council area would likely be ruled out.
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How to bid
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