Supply on Hire of Operated Vehicles for Snowploughing and General Snow Clearance Works

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Durham County Council awarded a framework agreement to multiple suppliers, including AST Lee & Sons, Carrick Contractors Ltd, Charles Harle and Sons, Forster Hall & Sons, Robert Stobbs, H.

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Davies & Partners, Ian Keith Wilson, J A Gilson Agricultural Contractors Ltd, JW Teward & Sons, and JR Tip, for the supply on hire of operated vehicles for snowploughing and general snow clearance.

The contract value is £1,064,000.

The framework enables the Council to engage ploughing-only contractors on a call-out basis during severe winter weather to carry out snow ploughing on pre-defined routes and other designated areas, including rural roads, housing estates, car parks, leisure centres, and public buildings.

Services may be required 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including public holidays, during the winter period from 1st October to 30th April, with possible extension based on weather conditions.