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First Choice Homes Oldham

Responsive Repairs and Voids Sub Contractors

Repair & MaintenanceCPV 50700000
Value£28.2m
Deadline31 Aug 2032
Published7 Jun 2022
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 7 Jun 20222188 days leftCloses 31 Aug 2032
Who to contact
Procurement@fcho.co.uk
+44 1613935207

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
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Contract value in context
£28.2mtotal contract value
median £130k
this tender£0£30.5m

This is a large award for Repair & Maintenance — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 15,278 valued Repair & Maintenance tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

First Choice Homes Oldham has published 14 Repair & Maintenance notices, about every 4 months. On that rhythm the next one is expected around September 2026.

8% of First Choice Homes Oldham’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

First Choice Homes Oldham (FCHO) is a not for profit registered provider of social housing.

FCHO has responsibility for managing, maintaining and improving its housing stock and the wider neighbourhood environment for customers to over 11,500 properties around the Borough of Oldham.

FCHO undertakes the full range of repairs and maintenance services using in-house teams with directly employed staff.

FCHOs Property Care Service delivers repairs and maintenance work including small volumes of planned investment work.

The Property Care Service utilises a range of sub-contractors to support delivery of these services, including to carry out specialist work and to assist with managing demand and capacity.

FCHO are looking to appoint contractors to a Dynamic Purchasing System to provide support to the in-house maintenance and repairs teams covering a number of workstreams for both Responsive Repairs and Void Repairs and which also includes complete rewiring, kitchen and bathroom installs.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Property Care Service utilises a range

The Property Care Service utilises a range of sub-contractors to support delivery of these services, including to carry out specialist work and to assist with managing demand and capacity.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market
FCHO are looking to appoint contractors to a Dynamic Purchasing System to provide support to the in-house maintenance and repairs teams covering a number of workstreams for both Responsive Repairs and Void Repairs and which also includes complete rewiring, kitchen and bathroom installs.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

What it takes to bid this

4580 daysof bid-team effort
£30.8k£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0343f9
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
015699-2022
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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