Our current tenders

Cambridge City Council plants a wide range of bedding plants in public areas across the city.

The main bedding areas include Christ's Pieces, Jesus Green, Cherry Hinton recreation ground, Trumpington and Hill's Road war memorials and the crematorium.

In addition we have 36 troughs and 181 baskets around the city.

Cambridge City Council is inviting tenders for the supply of bedding plants for floral display at sites around the city of Cambridge.

The contract will run for a period of three years, to include the summer 2011, spring and summer 2012, spring and summer 2013 and spring 2014 bedding periods.

If you would like a tender pack email Jonathan Woolley at jonathan.woolley@cambridge.gov.uk or telephone 01223 458547 or 07717 733930.

You can also write to the Cambridge City Council Depot, Mill Road, Cambridge CB1 2AZ.

Mott MacDonald acting on behalf of Cambridge City Council is seeking a competent contractor who can demonstrate experience of similar projects, to tender for the construction of a fish pass at Byron's Pool Local Nature Reserve.

Cambridge City Council wishes to enable fish to negotiate the existing weir on the river Cam at Byron's Pool by providing a fish pass consisting of a small concrete weir and natural looking bypass channel following the line of an existing ditch.

The project aims to improve the habitat for amphibians by deepening four existing amphibian pools and connecting the pools to the river Cam and to each other.

The Byron's Pool design and access statement provides further information on the project.

Cambridge City Council aims to improve the amenity of the Byron's Pool locality, providing greater accessibility at a time when the new housing development at Trumpington Meadows will bring members of the public to this site in greater numbers.

To request a tender pack please email Emma Farrington, our Business Support Co-ordinator, at businessresources@cambridge.gov.uk or telephone 01223 457161.

You can also write to Policy and Projects, Cambridge City Council, PO Box 700, Cambridge CB1 0JH.

Please note tender packs sent via email can take up to 24 hours to be received.

Any queries regarding the project should be emailed before 24 September 2010 to ellis.selway@cambridge.gov.uk or guy.belcher@cambridge.gov.uk. You can also telephone 01223 457000.

Tenders should be submitted and returned by midday on Friday 8 October 2010 marked "Tender for Byron's Pool fish pass" addressed to the Director of Customer and Democratic Services at the Guildhall, Cambridge City Council, Cambridge CB2 3QJ.

Cambridge City Council is creating a new extension to Logan’s Meadow Local Nature Reserve (LNR), which is called Pye Fen.  We wish to commission a ‘swift tower’ to be located within the Pye Fen extension.

The ‘tower’ will provide a key point of interest in the new natural green space and will be visible from the Riverside cycle bridge. This is an exciting, creative opportunity for an artist who has relevant experience for a commission of this nature.

The following download provides further details of the commission and also details of how to receive an Invitation to Tender pack:

• swift tower artwork commission summary

If you are interested in making a formal tender bid to undertake the commission, only a completed invitation to tender submitted by the deadline of 12pm on September 7 2010 can be considered as a bid for this commission.

Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation (ESPO), acting on behalf of Cambridge City Council ('City') and Cambridgeshire County Council ('County'), are seeking to establish a framework for the removal of asbestos, based on three work streams:

1. Licensed asbestos removal
2. Non-licensed asbestos removal
3. Collection and disposal of waste asbestos material removed

The three work streams are further divided across 'Reactive Requirements' and 'Planned (Project) Requirements' thus creating six lots.

It is anticipated that award will be made to a maximum of 54 contractors (nine per lot).

Access to the framework will be through a mixture of tariffs and rates and further competition as described in the pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) document.

Many of the buildings owned by the two authorities (including schools, libraries, community buildings and offices) contain asbestos in one form or another.

The goals of the framework are to guarantee the standard of work provided by contractors and ensure that the authorities achieve value for money based mainly on a process of further competition (mini competition) among framework providers.

The scope of this framework does not include asbestos surveys.

A copy of the contract notice placed in the Official Journal of the European Union may be viewed at http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:182031-2010:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0.

For an application form, please email your details to Pola Walecka at ESPO, at p.walecka@espo.org.

Cambridgeshire County Council and Cambridge City Council are looking for an experienced provider of high-quality community-based outreach services in response to the National Agenda on Rough Sleeping, as reflected in the Communities and Local Government paper "No One Left Out – Communities Ending Rough Sleeping", 2008.

The service will also provide specialist mental health support to individuals who experience mental health needs, and therefore knowledge and experience in this area is essential.

Leadership and robust management are also required to bring together two existing services to provide a comprehensive service.

Expressions of interest must be received by 12 July 2010. Tender documents will be issued on 13 July. Packs must be returned completed by 4pm on Thursday 26 August 2010.

Contact Helen Bevington at Box CC1006, Shire Hall, Cambridge CB3 0AP. You can email careplacementsadmin@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or telephone 01223 729127.