The City of Salisbury invites tenders for **** proactive street tree inspections and maintenance. The contractor must schedule and undertake annual programs, sourcing subcontractors as needed. Successful tenderers must demonstrate legal entity with valid ABN, required insurance, AQF 3 level arboriculture certifications for maintenance, and AQF 5 level for inspection audit. A mandatory briefing is held on 15th September 2026. The closing date is 5th October 2026 at 2pm Adelaide local time. The contract term is anticipated to be 5 years with 2 one-year extension options.
The council will have regard to, but not necessarily be limited to, the following criteria: insurance, compliance with work, health and safety requirements, methodology approach to collaboratively work with council and successfully deliver all required works, the tendered prices, including the proposed pricing structure, the level of risk associated with negotiation of an acceptable contract for works, including the extent and materiality of any proposed departures, qualifications, assumptions or alternative terms, environmental management systems, south australian community and economic benefit to be achieved through a resulting contract, assessed by reference to the substance of the benefits proposed and not solely by geographic location, degree of compliance with the requirements set out in this rft and the tender documents and such other matters that council considers relevant.
To be successful, tenderers must demonstrate: o legal entity with valid abn o insurance in accordance with cos contract requirements o mandatory section minimum o aqf 3 level arboriculture certifications for maintenance works o aqf 5 level arboriculture certifications for tree inspection audit o capacity quality resources and availability o tendered pricing must demonstrate value for money to council o management systems implemented that are applicable to the works e. g. safety, quality, environmental, customer relationship management.
A mandatory briefing will be held on 15th September 2026 10:00 am 11:00 am. attendees are to join via microsoft teams.
