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West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority

WEST MIDLANDS FIRE AND RESCUE AUTHORITY INVITATION TO TENDER FOR THE PLANNED PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE AND EMERGENCY REPAIR OF APPLIANCE BAY DOORS, ROLLER SHUTTER DOORS, VEHICULAR BARRIERS AND GAT

Construction MaterialsCPV 44000000 44100000 44110000 44115000 44200000 44220000 44221000 50000000
Value£451k
Awarded14 Mar 2022
Published25 May 2022
RegionWest Midlands
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£451ktotal contract value
median £135k
this tender£0£4.1m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Construction Materials & Structures band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 10,341 valued Construction Materials & Structures tenders in our corpus.

The brief

West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority is seeking a company to supply electrical and mechanical services, expertise and parts as required to provide an effective planned preventative maintenance programme of all appliance bay doors, roller shutters, gates, and barriers for 41 West Midlands Fire Service sites across the Council Authorities of Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, and Wolverhampton.

This Programme will include three annual inspection/maintenance visits (February/June/October, together with the provision of a 24 hours per day, 7 days per week emergency callout service to cover plant or service breakdown.

The successful contractor must ensure that they can adequately cover the West Midlands area and that call outs can be dealt with within 2 hours of receipt of a call for emergency repairs.

The company must be experienced in this field and able to demonstrate its professional and technical competence in providing a regular service.

Companies wishing to tender for this contract must have £5m public liability, employer's liability insurance cover and a minimum turnover of £640,000 per annum.

In addition, they should ideally be members of the Door Hardware Federation, Automatic Door Suppliers Association or equivalent.

The award of the contract is expected to be mid-April 2022 with a contract start date of 1st May 2022.

The contract shall be for two years with an option to extend for two further years.

The contract will not be split into Lots due to the requirement to have consistency of performance from one contractor in their provision of service and one set of fixed prices for parts and labour.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The successful contractor must ensure that they

The successful contractor must ensure that they can adequately cover the West Midlands area and that call outs can be dealt with within 2 hours of receipt of a call for emergency repairs.

02

The company must be experienced in this

The company must be experienced in this field and able to demonstrate its professional and technical competence in providing a regular service.

03

Companies wishing to tender for this contract

Companies wishing to tender for this contract must have £5m public liability, employer's liability insurance cover and a minimum turnover of £640,000 per annum.

04

In addition, they should ideally be members

In addition, they should ideally be members of the Door Hardware Federation, Automatic Door Suppliers Association or equivalent.

05

The award of the contract is expected

The award of the contract is expected to be mid-April 2022 with a contract start date of 1st May 2022.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named in obligation language, 0 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Employers' / public liability insurancesays mustFinancial standing & cover
Companies wishing to tender for this contract must have £5m public liability, employer's liability insurance cover and a minimum turnover of £640,000 per annum.

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Source & provenance
OCID
5e12c515-381c-44d9-834b-c933de2b0372
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
20220525113218-34952
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