FI15605

Request

  1. What are the biggest challenges your organisation currently faces in surveying and geospatial activity?
  2. Are you confident in your full knowledge of the condition and knowledge of your impact on our local environment
  3. What are your organisation’s key strategic objectives for the next 12-24 months, and how does surveying and geospatial fit into these?
  4. Please detail any planned development of sites or assets
  5. Do you have a supplier for drainage mapping and surveying?
  6. If so, please can you supply details of the contractual arrangements in place including date of award, details of any Framework used or link to the advertisement, contract value and duration
  7. If not, please can you indicate what evaluation of the requirement for surveying and geospatial works have been undertaken?
  8. Please share your planned procurement pipeline for surveying and geospatial works for the next 12 months
  9. How do you engage with potential new suppliers—through open tenders, direct engagement, or supplier dayS?
  10. Please can you confirm the individual responsible for managing your surveying and geospatial contracts or wider development contracts and provide their contact details and role title?
  11. Please provide a list of frameworks that you procure related services through
  12. Do you plan to repurpose any sites for renewable energy or solar farms?
  13. Do you have any issues with subsidence in your properties? If so, where?
  14. When developing/purchasing/selling a site, how do you verify that the boundaries are correct?
  15. Do you have any public cycleway schemes coming up in the next 12-24 months?
  16. How do you ensure the safety of your teams on site? Do you provide utility plans?

Response

  1. The Council does not hold this information.
  2. The Council does not hold this information.
  3. The Council does not hold this information.
  4. The Council is in the process of undertaking an ongoing programme of development to deliver affordable housing across the district, part of which is to develop suitable DDC owned sites for housing.
  5. No, these are competitively tendered when required for individual sites.
  6. Not applicable.
  7. Drainage mapping and surveying services are commissioned when necessary to evaluate sites being considered for development.
  8. The Council does not hold this information.
  9. For services valued at 0-£15K, service areas may seek quotation(s) directly. For services £15K-£100K, a minimum of three quotations will be sourced in liaison with the Procurement Team. Services valued at £100K plus will be advertised via the Kent Business Portal www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk, and where over the relevant PA23 threshold, also advertised on the governments Central Digital Platform.
  10. The Council does not hold this information.
  11. The Council does not hold a list of frameworks to procure such services through however may look to source (through a framework) if appropriate. Such frameworks may be considered/reviewed as/when applicable.
  12. The Council does not hold this information.
  13. No.
  14. A topographical survey is commissioned at early stages, which is checked against the Land Registry information for the site.
  15. No, as we have no responsibility for cycleway schemes.
  16. All information available regarding utility services on a site proposed for development are passed to relevant contractors for information, and form part of all Pre-Construction Phase Plans.