This tender concerns the provision of the statutory municipal rat control in Ærø Municipality.
The tender includes Agreement on Statutory Municipal Combating and Rat Prevention, in both urban and rural zone, as well as on coastal islands.
The scale of rat control relies on a number of conditions, including the weather. Ærø Municipality experiences a number of reviews in the winter half year corresponding to approximately 1-2 full-time fighters, and a number of reviews in the summer half year corresponding to about 0.5-1 full-time fighter.
The Agreement provides for flexibility with the Bidder, in relation to the number of reviews during the months of the year.
Combating is carried out throughout the year at Ærø itself, after notification received, and supervision of Ærø approximately 50 supervisory properties once (1) once a year in the period October through February.
Ærø Municipality covers an area of about 91 km2 and has about 6,000 inhabitants. The municipality also includes the inhabited island of Birkholm and a number of smaller uninhabited islands, like Dejrø, Halmö, Lilleø and Egholm.
Below are seen listed the number of reviews from 2019 onwards. The figures indicate the number of reviews entered into the electronic review system.
Number of reviews are accounted for:
• 2019:642 reviews
• 2020:779 reviews
• 2021:642 reviews
The municipality of Ærø will focus in this tender on the initiation of the fight with thorough investigations and combating, which will only be completed after a proven effective fight.