2324-0017 General Build Repairs and Maintenance Works

Description

The council is a landlord to around 35,000 council tenants and leaseholders living in homes located across the borough. As a landlord the council is responsible for ensuring that repairs needed to residents’ homes are carried out promptly, to ensure safe and habitable housing. The council is seeking to appoint four (4) contractors to a framework agreement, with multidisciplinary trades people, to support the councils in-house responsive repairs teams during busier “peak” times. Lot 1: The appointed suppliers will support the council’s in-house teams in providing efficient, effective, customer-focused general building works, including day to day minor repairs; damp and mould treatment works, plumbing, carpentry, metal work, glazing. Call-off contracts for works will be issued evenly on an alternate basis between the four (4) contractors e.g. Contractor A receives jobs 1, 3 and 5, Contractor B receives jobs 2, 4 and 6, Contractor C receives jobs 8, 10, 12 and so forth. This will be monitored closely using IT management systems put in place by the Service. The value of works under general build varies from high-value to low-value jobs. Contractors are expected to carry out all jobs borough-wide and assist the in-house team with out of hours emergency and urgent service. Additional information: Lots This services contract is not being divided into lots. A framework agreement is being used as stated in the section above. TUPE [Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations] Potential providers must be aware that TUPE may or may not apply to this service. Further details will be available in the invitation to tender.