The City of Cockburn manages over 1200 hectares of natural areas including wetland, coastal and bushland conservation reserves. The objectives of the City’s revegetation works are to improve biodiversity values, increase vegetation condition ratings and to meet community expectations and on occasion, legislative requirements associated with offsets.

To ensure our conservation areas are revegetated and maintained to the standards expected by the community, the City (The Principal) is seeking a suitably qualified and experienced contractor(s) to undertake a range of revegetation related services within these natural areas.

The scope of works for Revegetation Services includes; installation of native tubestock, native tubestock supply, direct seeding, weed control (chemical and manual), site preparation including scalping and tree guard maintenance..

The successful Contractor(s) shall be required to adhere to dieback procedures and is required to provide all labour, plant and equipment, materials, chemicals, wetting agents etc. necessary to carry out all of the works.

This Contract does not include tubestock watering, fence repairs (major) or tree pruning (major).

The Contractor shall ensure that vehicles and equipment are capable of accessing off road bushland and wetland areas to undertake required works. Tracks within reserves are generally sealed (limestone or asphalt), and/or unsealed firebreaks (sand).

The works will be required on a monthly or seasonal basis for all services and categories unless otherwise indicated. It should be noted that there is an increased level of revegetation activity required during the winter period (June-July) with the Principal installing several thousand native tubestock per annum as well as additional weed control.

The majority of works conducted will be on a scheduled basis, however some ad-hoc works may be required.

The City currently is receiving external funding from Main Roads to deliver the Rehabilitation of Roe 8 project which includes weed control, tubestock planting and tree guard maintenance. This element of the works program is subject to approved external funding on an annual basis.

The Contract may be awarded to a sole or multiple Tenderer(s). As revegetation works may be in response to external considerations the contract has been designed to be flexible and responsive. It is anticipated that annually new revegetation sites may be added while the previous year's sites will continue to be maintained.

It is anticipated the contract will be assigned based on suburbs / zones for example in the following manner:

Zone A: North Coogee, Coogee, Lake Coogee Henderson, Coolbellup, Bibra Lake, Jandakot, Treeby, Banjup, Aubin Grove, Atwell, Leeming;

Zone B: Hamilton Hill, Spearwood, North Lake, South Lake, Yangebup, Cockburn Central, Munster, Beeliar, Success, Wattleup, Hammond Park;

Zone C: Roe 8 Rehabilitation Project

The proposed Contract shall be in force for a period of three (3) years from the date of award; with Principal instigated options to extend the period for one (1) subsequent year period and up to an additional twelve (12) months after that, to a maximum of five (5) years.

A full statement of the services required under the proposed contract appears in B01 Specification.

SPECIAL NOTE:

• Tenderers are required to address all requirements as outlined in the request;
• Please ensure that you fully read and understand the Conditions provided in the Conditions of Participation tab and in ALL documentation provided;
• Failure to comply shall deem your submission non-compliant; and
• Compliance to the Modern Slavery Act 2018 and when requested be able to provide a Modern Slavery Statement as required by the Act