Lawn Mowing and Garden Maintenance Services for Veterans

Details

RFx ID :	31742900
Tender Name :	Lawn Mowing and Garden Maintenance Services for Veterans
Reference # :
Open Date :	Q2 2025
Indicative RFx Release Date  :	Q3 2025  [?]
Department/Business Unit :	Procurement
Tender Type :	Future Procurement Opportunity (FPO)
Project Status :	Confirmed  [?]
Indicative Total Value :	$100M +  [?]
Tender Coverage :	Sole Agency  [?]
Categories :	70110000 - Horticulture 72000000 - Building and Facility Construction and Maintenance Services 76000000 - Industrial Cleaning Services 91000000 - Personal and Domestic Services 93140000 - Community and social services
Regions:	New Zealand
Required Pre-qualifications :	None
Contact :	Valtyn Showell dcs@nzdf.mil.nz

This notification is to inform interested suppliers that New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) on behalf of Veteran Affairs New Zealand (VANZ) intends to release a request for proposal (RFP) for the Supply of Lawn Mowing and Garden Maintenance Services

Under the Veterans’ Support Act 2014 the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF), on behalf of VA, has a requirement to approach the open market for the supply of Lawn Mowing and Garden Maintenance for New Zealand veterans (Services).

Veterans’ Affairs (VA) are mandated under the Veterans’ Support Act 2014 Part 5, Entitlements common to Scheme One and Scheme Two, subpart 4 – Veterans’ Independence Programme to provide services and support to a veteran with qualifying service.

The key objective of this procurement activity is to procure a national lawn and garden maintenance services for veterans who require home assistance, and to enter into contractual arrangements with either one nationwide supplier or with numerous suppliers on a regional basis, the outcome of which will be determined during the procurement process. Under either option (nationwide supplier or regional suppliers), the supplier/s will be able through a national or regional model/s where subcontracting arrangements may be appropriate.

The regions are broken down into 4 regionals, i.e.:

Regional A: Upper North Island: Northland and Auckland
Regional B: Central North Island: Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay
Regional C: Lower North Island: Taranaki, Manawatu-Whanganui and Wellington
Regional D: South Island: Tasman, Nelson, Marlborough and West Coast, Canterbury, Otago and Southland

For regional coverage Respondents must be able to provide the service to the whole regional (e.g. Regional A) and not by individual regions within that regional.

Note: This is a Future Procurement Opportunity (FPO) to alert suppliers of a potential upcoming procurement activity, though does not represent a commitment by NZDF to procure.

We intend to go to market 04 July 2025 (Indicative). The opportunity will be advertised on the Government Electronic Tenders Service (GETS), through an Open RFP tender process.