Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-02-23
Buyer: Central Bedfordshire Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 24962000 | 33196100 | 33196200 | 35110000: Fire-fighting and safety equipment | 35111000: Fire-fighting equipment
Estimated value: 190000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-03-27
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The provision of repairs and maintenance services, planned preventative maintenance, cyclical maintenance and various programmes of key component replacement works to social housing stock. The services and works comprising the proposed Contract are set out at in more detail at section II.2.4 of this Notice and are further described in the CPV Codes at section II.2.2 and the draft procurement documents available from the website shown at section I.3.
Various social housing properties in the main towns of Leighton Buzzard, Dunstable, Houghton Regis and their surrounding villages, all within Central Bedfordshire.
Central Bedfordshire Council (the Authority) is seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced service providers to enter into a term contract for the delivery of repairs and maintenance services and planned capital investment works (together the services) to various of its residential housing stock comprising approximately 5,600 properties of which approximately 350 are leasehold. The authority intends to enter into a Term Alliancing Contract, TAC-1 2016 for an initial period of 10 years extendable at the authority's sole discretion for a further 5 years to a maximum of 15 years. The services include for the following 12 Core Services:
i) A 24/7/365 day to day responsive repairs and maintenance service including electrical repairs and void (empty) property repairs and refurbishment;
iv) Installation and maintenance of aids and adaptions equipment for residents with reduced mobility;
ix) Routine servicing, maintenance and repair of communal alarm systems in supported and sheltered housing units;
xii) Surveys of existing trees for insurance and arboriculture purposes. The Authority may, at their sole discretion and on the agreement of the provider, include the following works and services to the term programme at any time post award:
i) Planned internal capital investment works to the housing stock including but not limited to replacement kitchens, bathrooms, commercial and domestic boilers, and heating systems;
ii) Planned external capital investment works including but not limited to roof refurbishment and renewals, and window replacements;
v) Various property refurbishment works. The estimated value of the Services quotes at II.1.5 includes for all work streams.
Applicants will be required to complete a Selection Questionnaire (“SQ”) consistent with The Public Contracts Directive (2014/24/EU). The criteria for choosing the number of candidates will be set out in the SQ. The SQ is available from the website given at I.3 and must be returned by the date stipulated at section IV.2.2 to the address set out in the Questionnaire.
The authority will observe a standstill period following the award of the contract and conduct itself in respect of any appeals in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.


Award value: 190000000