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CIRRUS PURCHASING LTD

Scottish Borders Housing Association: Mini-competition for Materials Supply Via the Cirrus Consortium Framework

Construction MaterialsCPV 44000000
Value£3.8m
Awarded1 Oct 2018
Published28 Jan 2019
RegionScotland
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£3.8mtotal contract value
median £135k
this tender£0£4.1m

This is a large award for Construction Materials & Structures — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 10,341 valued Construction Materials & Structures tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Scottish Borders Housing Association (SBHA) requires the supply of building materials through a nominated main branch and supporting branch network operated by a Cirrus Consortium Materials Framework supplier.

The service will be used primarily by SBHA and is available for use by any other part of SBHA (both current and future) as required.

SBHA has undertaken as a mini-competition, as detailed in Regulation 33 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 #102, under the Cirrus Consortium Materials Framework 4th edition.

SBHA has engaged with a single main merchant for the provision of a range of materials from an existing branch to support the SBHA internal maintenance team.

SBHA will also require access to the successful merchants wider branch network from time to time to minimise travel time for operatives.

The duration of the contract will be 3 years with 2 annual options to extend by a further 12 months on each occasion up to a maximum of 5 years (60 months).

The value contained in this notice represents the guaranteed minimum expenditure excluding VAT over the total contract length.

However, the expenditure is expected to be approximately £5,500,000 excluding VAT.

SBHA accepts no liability for any inaccuracies in the expenditure estimates provided over the minimum expenditure commitment.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Scottish Borders Housing Association (SBHA) requires

Scottish Borders Housing Association (SBHA) requires the supply of building materials through a nominated main branch and supporting branch network operated by a Cirrus Consortium Materials Framework supplier.

02

SBHA has engaged with a single main

SBHA has engaged with a single main merchant for the provision of a range of materials from an existing branch to support the SBHA internal maintenance team.

03

However, the expenditure is expected to

However, the expenditure is expected to be approximately £5,500,000 excluding VAT.

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