Clive Richardson Limited were awarded the contract to carry out General Grounds Maintenance across the Royal Group of Hospitals Estate to meet the requirements of the Health and Social Care (HSC) in Northern Ireland. Specifically CRL carry out the following three lots which relate to the Royal Group of Hospitals Estate:
- Lot 1 Section 1.1.4 Belfast Health and Social Care Trust Royal Group of Hospitals
- Lot 1 Section 1.1.5 Belfast Health and Social Care Trust Royal Group of Hospitals: Maintenance of Flower Beds, Rose Beds and Shrub Beds
- Lot 1 Section 1.1.6 Belfast Health and Social Care Trust Royal Group of Hospitals: Roads Paths and Flagged Areas
These lots represent all of the grounds maintenance to be carried out across the entirety of the Royal Group of Hospitals Estate.
Works/duties undertaken by CRL in the operational delivery of this contract typically include all planned, preventative and emergency works concerning the following tasks:
- Flower Beds, Rose Beds and Shrub Beds
- Annual Pruning
- Weed Control
- Boundary Hedges
- Amenity Hedges
- Grass Lawn class A Category
- Grass Lawn Class B Category
- Fallen Leaf Removal
- Management of Existing Wild Flower Areas
- Roads, Paths and Flagged Areas
- Application of Moss/Lichen Inhibitor
- Litter Collection (Litter Bins)
- Litter Picking
- Smoking Shelters
- Bus Shelters
- Site Signage and Litter Bin Cleaning
- Cleaning of Furniture including Play Equipment
- Mechanical Road Sweeping
- Road Gully Cleaning
- Tree Trimming and Branching
CRL have extensive experience of these works having carried out the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust Royal Group of Hospitals Grounds Estate Maintenance works under a previous contract which ran from 1 September 2014 until the commencement of this new contract.