Tracks and Walkways Maintenance

Details

Whangarei District Council (Council) is going to the market for the Tracks and Walkways Maintenance Contract

The process will be a two-staged open market process:
 Registration of Interest (ROI)
 Request for Proposal (RFP)

This ROI is the first formal step in the process and is intended to be of minimal effort for respondents and allow the Council to create a short list of suppliers to invite to enter the RFP process.

The Parks and Recreation department outsources most of the maintenance of the parks and recreation activity through a range of contracts covering the parks and garden, trees, tracks and walkways, coastal and park structures, playgrounds and skateparks and sports parks.

We are looking for a suitably experienced contractor to undertake maintenance of 63 tracks and walkways measuring a total length of 63,580 metres including assets such as steps, boardwalks,culverts, track edgeing handrails, signs, barriers, picnic tables and benches, viewing platforms, retaining walls and bridges associated with the tracks and walkways .

The areas covered by this contract are:
reviewing condition assessments and develop a strategy and program for next five years
Listed tracks and walkways
Listed Kauri Ora hygiene stations

scheduled inspections and maintenance programs for:
 public health and safety
 Request (public enquiry) response
 risk reduction for Council

emergency response and reactive maintenance
collection and provision of asset data
maintain asset register and database
customer liaison

A full list of all tracks and walkways will be included in the RFP stage.