Following a competitive tender process, procurement organisation Fusion21 is delighted to announce the suppliers successfully appointed to its national Reactive Repairs and Empty Buildings Framework worth up to £250m over a four-year period.
46 specialist firms, with 61% being SMES, have secured a place on the framework developed to support housing associations and local authorities with a wide range of reactive works and services, covering responsive and out-of-hours reactive emergency repairs, void property repairs, and outsourced call handling on a 24/7 or out-of-hours basis.
Empty property refurbishment, improvement, and security services are also included in the framework, in addition to a lot dedicated to the delivery of housing disrepair and remedial works, subject to legal disrepair claims.
The lotting structure is as follows:
Lot 1 – Reactive repairs and maintenance (worth up to £180m)
Lot 2 – Empty property improvements (worth up to £22.5m)
Lot 3 – Empty property security (worth up to £10m)
Lot 4 – Disrepair works (worth up to £36m)
Lot 5 – Contact centre services (worth up to £1.5m)
Peter Francis, Executive Director of Operations at Fusion21 said: “Our refreshed offer has been designed in response to member and supply chain feedback and now provides all aspects of repairs, maintenance, property refurbishment, and security works in one place.
“Current figures have highlighted housing associations are spending around £5.4bn a year on repairs and maintenance services and we expect demand in this area to continue to grow.
“Our national Reactive Repairs and Empty Buildings Framework comes at a time when tackling back-log repairs and disrepair works remains a high priority for registered providers, alongside targets to increase customer satisfaction within communities and deliver best practice.
“Fusion21 members accessing this complaint framework will work alongside a rigorously assessed and approved supply chain and will also be supported by our technical procurement experts to deliver social value they can see within communities.”
Other framework benefits include; measurable efficiency savings, plus flexible call-off options – including direct award and geographical coverage across the UK down to a regional and local level.
Successful suppliers appointed to Fusion21’s Reactive Repairs and Empty Buildings Framework:
Axis Europe Plc
Bell Decorating Group Limited
Breyer Group Public Limited Company
C.L.C. Contractors Limited
Chas Berger Limited
Chigwell (London) Limited
City West Works Limited T/A Liberty Group
Combined Facilities Management Ltd
CTS Projects Limited
Cubic FM Limited
Davies Group Limited
Diamond Build Plc
DLP Services (Northern) Limited
Dodd Group (Midlands) Limited
Equans Regeneration Limited
Fortem Solutions Limited
Foster Property Maintenance Limited
Guildmore Ltd
Hardyman & Co Limited
Ian Williams Limited
Jeakins Weir Limited
LCB Construction Limited
M&Y Maintenance & Construction Limited
M.C.P. Property Services Limited
M.D. Building Services Limited
Maurice Flynn & Sons Ltd
Mears Limited
Milestone Contracting Limited
MNM Property Services Limited
Orbis Protect Limited
P.K. Murphy Construction Limited
Penny Lane Builders Limited
Pilon Limited
Prestige Domestic Property Maintenance Ltd
Quinn (London) Limited
R. Benson Property Maintenance Limited
SER Contractor Ltd
Sovini Property Services Limited
Sterling Services (Northern) Limited
Structec (N.W.) Limited
T.S.G. Building Services Plc
Unitas Stoke-On-Trent Ltd
United Living (South) Limited
UPS Building & Maintenance Limited
VPS (Uk) Limited
Wates Property Services Limited