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West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority

Planned Preventative Maintenance and Emergency Repair of Appliance Bay Doors, Roller Shutter Doors, Vehicular Barriers and Gates for West Midlands Fire & Rescue Authority

Construction MaterialsCPV 44115310 44221300 50000000 50700000
Value£220k
Awarded15 Jan 2018
Published15 Apr 2018
RegionWest Midlands
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£220ktotal 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 West Midlands Area broken into three lots: Lot 1 - Black Country Lot 2 - Birmingham Lot 3 - Coventry & Solihull Companies wishing to tender may bid for any combination or all lots.

This Programme will include four annual inspection/maintenance visits (February/May/August/November) together with the provision of a 365, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week emergency callout service to cover plant or service breakdown.

The successful contractor must ensure that he can adequately cover the West Midlands area and that call outs can be dealt with within 2 hours of receipt of a P1 (Priority 1) 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 or be willing to obtain £5m public liability and employer's liability cover and a minimum turnover of £440,000 per annum (for all 3 lots) or separately turnover for lot 1 would be £150,000, lot 2, £170,000 and lot 3, £120,000.

In addition they should ideally be members of the Door Hardware Federation, or equivalent or be willing to obtain similar accreditation if successful.

Full details can be found at Schedule 2 of the documentation.

The award of the contract is expected to be mid-February 2018 with a contract start date of 1st May 2018.

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

For full details (see schedule 2 - specification

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The successful contractor must ensure that he

The successful contractor must ensure that he can adequately cover the West Midlands area and that call outs can be dealt with within 2 hours of receipt of a P1 (Priority 1) 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 or be willing to obtain £5m public liability and employer's liability cover and a minimum turnover of £440,000 per annum (for all 3 lots) or separately turnover for lot 1 would be £150,000, lot 2, £170,000 and lot 3, £120,000.

04

In addition they should ideally be members

In addition they should ideally be members of the Door Hardware Federation, or equivalent or be willing to obtain similar accreditation if successful.

05

The award of the contract is expected

The award of the contract is expected to be mid-February 2018 with a contract start date of 1st May 2018.

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Stage
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