Servicing and Repair of Gas and Renewable Heating Equipment (Domestic and Commercial)

Concepts

• central heating
• manchester
• repair and maintenance
• heat pumps
• central heating installation
• gas appliance
• maintenance services
• domestic renewable heating systems
• commercial renewable heating systems
• renewable heating systems

Location

The place of performance is described as the United Kingdom, and this is intended to indicate that individual Customers of the framework agreement will own and manage property across some or all of this area. Contractors who are appointed to the framework agreement will not be required to work across the entirety of the UK and they will be able to limit their participation in call off processes to those opportunities that align with the geographical areas in which their organisation operates.

Description

Procure Plus are a value focused, not for profit company that specialises in the procurement of goods and services related to both the new build, repair, and maintenance of social housing. Procure Plus wishes to procure and enter into a framework agreement for the servicing and repair of gas and renewable heating equipment. This will cover the annual servicing, maintenance, and repair of domestic gas fired central heating installations, domestic miscellaneous gas appliances, solid fuel appliances and domestic renewable heating systems. It will also cover the annual servicing, maintenance, and repair within domestic and non-domestic settings of commercial gas fired heating installations, HVAC systems and commercial renewable heating systems. The servicing, maintenance and repair of renewable heating systems covers both air source heat pump and ground source heat pump systems for both domestic and commercial heating equipment. In accordance with the provisions of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (63)(7), Bidders on Lot 1 and Lot 2 are advised that Contractors who are appointed to this framework agreement will not be permitted to sub-contract the responsibility for the service, maintenance, and repair of gas appliances. Due to the business criticality and risk to both the customer organisation and the resident, the responsibility for the service maintenance and repair of gas appliances will be the responsibility of the Contractor who is appointed to the framework agreement. Contractors appointed to the framework agreement will be permitted, with the agreement of the Customer, to utilise subcontractors to complete the works required to solid fuel appliances and to supplement the service, maintenance, and repair of gas appliances in exceptional circumstances. For example, additional volume caused by extreme weather conditions and / or the geographical spread of properties. Bidders are permitted to sub-contract the responsibility for the service, maintenance, and repair of renewable technologies within scope of the framework agreement.

Lot Division

CPV Codes

• 50720000 - Repair and maintenance services of central heating
• 09110000 - Solid fuels
• 42511110 - Heat pumps
• 45331100 - Central-heating installation work
• 45331110 - Boiler installation work
• 50531200 - Gas appliance maintenance services
• 50710000 - Repair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installations

Indicators

• Bids should cover one or more lots.
• Bids should cover the whole contract.
• Renewals are not available.
• Professional qualifications are sought.
• Award on basis of price and quality.

Other Information

Procure Plus intends to appoint 15 Contractors to this lot. Procure Plus reserves the option to appoint a limited number of additional Contractors to this lot of the framework agreement, beyond the 15 stated above. This option may be exercised by Procure Plus where there is a close proximity in the final overall scores between the 15th bidder and the bidders who are ranked in close proximity beneath. Bidders are advised that this is an option and not an obligation on the part of Procure Plus. Procure Plus reserves the right not to exercise this option and to only appoint 15 Contractors to this framework at the conclusion of the evaluation. Individual contracting authorities and organisations entitled to access the framework agreement will have the option to agree and award contracts to the appointed service providers at any point during the term of the framework agreement. Such contracting authorities and organisations are as follows: Any customer of Procure Plus from time to time, which may include: Any social housing provider in the United Kingdom from time to time. 'Social Housing Provider' for this purpose means any provider of social housing and includes, without limitation, registered providers, local authorities, and arm's length management organisations (ALMOs) Any local authority Any combined authority or associated body Any police, fire or rescue authority Any transport authority Any NHS trust or body, or other health authority Any waste disposal authority; any university, school, free school, college or academy Any other contracting authority (as defined in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015) that does not fall within any of the aforementioned categories Any entity or joint venture company that any of the aforementioned contracting authorities and organisations holds an interest in from time to time. A list of current social housing providers can be found by visiting: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/registered-providers-of-social-housin... A number of contracts called off under the framework agreement may be completed using funding received via the European Union including but not limited to the European Regional Development Fund. Procure Plus reserves the right to cancel the procurement at any time and not to proceed with all or part of the Framework Agreement. Procure Plus will not, under any circumstances, reimburse any expense incurred by applicants in preparing their tender submissions or in participating in this procurement process.