Marriott’s Walk Public Realm

Question: What is the contract timeline?

Context: Contract start date, end date, total duration, and any key milestones or phases mentioned. Return null if not stated.

The contract timeline includes the following explicitly stated dates:

• Contract Award Date: 30th September 2026
• Contract Start Date: 23rd October 2026

The core scope of work for this tender primarily involves extensive public realm improvements, encompassing both hard and soft landscaping works.

Key deliverables and work categories include:

• Preliminaries: This involves site mobilization, transport of plant machinery and tools, establishing site offices, ensuring site welfare and safety, installing Heras perimeter fencing and tree protection fencing, and implementing security systems.
• Demolition, Site Clearance & Earthworks: Tasks include the removal of existing scrub, weeds, and debris, excavation of topsoils, licensed disposal of construction waste, careful lifting and storage of existing paving for reuse, mounding and grading, scarification and preparation for seeding, and licensed disposal of existing furniture.
• Hard Landscaping:
• Block Paving: Supply and installation of sub-base and laying course, installation of existing pavers, and supply and installation of new paving to match existing.
• Self-Binding Gravel: Supply and installation of sub-base, self-binding gravel, Cellweb tree root protection, and geotextile.
• Edging and Kerbs: Supply and installation of 75mm Kinley Fort Corten edging and block edging to match existing.
• Fencing: Supply and installation of Steelscapes Woven Corten Fence.
• Furniture: Supply and installation of F1 ground sockets, Furnitubes Zenith Horizon Removable Curved Seating (3.6r and 2.4r), Sinus cycle stands, Interpretation Lecterns, triple litter bins by Vestre, bespoke Oak habitat posts, and moveable planters.
• Artwork: Supply and installation of road marking paint artwork.
• Soft Landscaping:
• Soils/Substrates/Irrigation and Staking: Supply and installation of low nutrient topsoil for meadow turf and seeding areas, meadow turf, topsoils for shrubs, soils and Leca substrates for planters, mulch, irrigation Mona Link 24 tanks for planters, and tree anchor systems.
• Plants: Supply and installation of trees, shrubs, perennials/grasses, climbers, bulbs, seeds, and turf.
• Maintenance: This involves watering, pruning, and weeding plants, turf, and seeded areas over a 12-month period, and watering, pruning, and weeding trees over a 2-year period.

The project also requires tenderers to demonstrate their understanding of delivering these hard and soft landscaping works effectively, managing the works program, minimizing disruption to stakeholders and the public, managing health, safety, and environmental aspects, and ensuring clear communication to maintain quality standards throughout the contract.