Responsive Repairs Contractor Framework

The Guinness Partnership Limited (Guinness) build and manage homes and housing services for around 120,000 customers.

Of our 65,000 homes, more than 70% are let at a social or affordable rent, while around 10,000 are owned or part-owned by the people who live in them.

Guinness Property is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Guinness Partnership and carries out responsive repairs, empty homes work (including component replacement works (kitchens, bathrooms) to around 46,000 properties in the North West, North East, South Central and South Coast regions.

In order to achieve our objectives, Guinness Property is looking to re-procure its existing contractor responsive repairs.

The framework will be for a 3-year duration with the option of a further 1-year extension (maximum of 4-years ) The frameworks will cover the following works/services: Responsive repairs Provision of day to day responsive repairs (with the option to also provide out of hours) to support Guinness Property's in-house repairs delivery service GP have 4 geographical regions - North West, North East, South Central and South Coast and 33 geographical sectors.

Details of the geographical sectors can be found below.

Sectors are distributed across England, with some areas of high density and others that are widely dispersed.

Bidders will be allowed to submit bids for one, two or any number of sectors within each lot in order to ensure regional (SME) and national suppliers are given equal and fair opportunity.

Pricing Model The pricing will be based on M3NATFED Schedule of Rates version 6.1 requiring suppliers to provide a % uplift/discount against the M3NATFED Schedule of rates.

We will also be seeking daywork and archetype rates for the following standard components: - Kitchens - Bathrooms - Composite Doors (including fire rated doors) - Electric Storage Heaters (Dimplex Quantum) We are looking to advertise via Due North (Proactis web portal) for EOI in September 2020