Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-06-02
Buyer: Procurement for Housing
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 31518200 | 31625000 | 31625100 | 31625200 | 34928470
Estimated value: 250000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-06-29
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Established in 2004, Procurement for Housing (PfH) is a national procurement consortium dedicated to the social housing sector and supported by the National Housing Federation (NHF), the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) and Housemark. PfH is a contracting authority under Regulation 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015) and a central purchasing body under Regulation 37 PCR 2015. PfH is seeking qualified and experienced contractors to establish a framework agreement for fire safety installation, service and maintenance works and services to cover sprinkler and fire suppression systems, fire alarm and emergency lighting systems, passive works, whole building works and cladding. The framework will be divided into regions and value bands. A separate procurement is being undertaken for Scotland, details of which can be found on the Public Contracts Scotland website.
Design, installation, testing, commissioning, handover, service and maintenance of sprinkler and fire suppression systems. The lot is divided into 11 geographical regions and three value bands. Organisations may bid for all regions and a maximum of two value bands. PfH intends to appoint five contractors to each region and value band, but reserves the right to award a greater or fewer number of places depending on the bids received.
Service and maintenance of sprinkler and fire suppression systems. The lot is divided into 11 geographical regions and three value bands. Organisations may bid for all regions and a maximum of two value bands. PfH intends to appoint five contractors to each region and value band, but reserves the right to award a greater or fewer number of places depending on the bids received.
Design, installation, testing, commissioning, handover, service and maintenance of fire alarm and emergency lighting systems. The lot is divided into 11 geographical regions and three value bands. Organisations may bid for all regions and a maximum of two value bands. PfH intends to appoint five contractors to each region and value band, but reserves the right to award a greater or fewer number of places depending on the bids received.
Service and maintenance of fire alarm and emergency lighting systems. The lot is divided into 11 geographical regions and three value bands. Organisations may bid for all regions and a maximum of two value bands. PfH intends to appoint  contractors to each region and value band, but reserves the right to award a greater or fewer number of places depending on the bids received.
Design, installation, testing, commissioning, handover, service and maintenance of a range of passive fire protection measures including but not limited to fire resistant rated compartmentation works, installation and replacement fire doors to PAS 24 standards, fire sealing and damping, signage and photoluminescent path markers. The lot is divided into 11 geographical regions and three value bands. Organisations may bid for all regions and a maximum of two value bands. PfH intends to appoint five contractors to each region and value band, but reserves the right to award a greater or fewer number of places depending on the bids received.
Design, installation, testing, commissioning, handover, service and maintenance of a range of active and passive fire protection measures as set out in lots 1-5. The lot is divided into 11 geographical regions and three value bands. Organisations may bid for all regions and a maximum of two value bands. PfH intends to appoint five contractors to each region and value band, but reserves the right to award a greater or fewer number of places depending on the bids received.
Design, installation, testing, commissioning, handover, service and maintenance of cladding and the replacement of Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding panels with new fire resistant cladding systems with appropriate compartmentation. The lot is divided into 11 geographical regions and three value bands. Organisations may bid for all regions and a maximum of two value bands. PfH intends to appoint five contractors to each region and value band, but reserves the right to award a greater or fewer number of places depending on the bids received.
This framework may be used by any contracting authority listed in or referred to in the OJEU notice. This includes:
— any registered provider of social housing (or Welsh registered social landlord or Scottish registered social registered social landlord) that becomes a member of PfH during the period of the framework agreement;
— any public authority (as defined in the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for public authorities in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and UK-wide public authorities based in Scotland or as defined in the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 for Scottish public authorities) that becomes a member of PfH at any time during the period of the framework agreement;
— any local authority (as defined in the Local Government Act 1972 for public authorities in England and Wales or as defined in the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 for Scottish local authorities or as defined in the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 for local authorities in Northern Ireland) that becomes a member of PfH at any time during the period of the framework agreement;
— any housing Arm's Length Management Organisation (ALMO) that becomes a member of PfH during the period of the framework agreement;
— any other contracting authority listed on the following page of the PfH website http://procurementforhousing.co.uk/permissible-users/ at the time of the OJEU notice for this procurement.
Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information, please visit the InTend website at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/procurementforhousing/aspx/home The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/procurementforhousing/aspx/home Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.

Eligibility requirements: As set out in the procurement documents.

Award value: 250000000