Building Maintenance Contract

Description

Bromford is preparing a competitive procurement process under the Procurement Act 2023 for a multi-lot Building Maintenance Works Contract, delivering core and specialist property services across its housing portfolio. The anticipated scope includes: - Responsive Repairs - Void Property Works - Disrepair and Legal Repairs - CDM (Condensation, Damp, and Mould) Works - Planned Component Replacements - Aftercare and Follow-on Repairs for newly built homes Services will be delivered across Bromford's operational geography. At this stage, the structure of the contract, including the potential use of regional or service-specific lots, remains undecided. Through this preliminary market engagement, Bromford aims to understand supplier capability and capacity across geographies and service types, in order to shape a commercially viable and operationally effective lotting approach. While Bromford may consider aggregating services where appropriate to leverage economies of scale and improve service consistency, no decision has been made, and feedback from the market will be a key factor in shaping this strategy. Delivery may be direct or through supply chain partners; however, suppliers must demonstrate the ability to ensure consistency, quality, and customer satisfaction across all workstreams and locations. Solutions from a range of provider types - including large contractors, regional SMEs, and collaborative consortia - will be welcomed. This Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) forms part of our early market consultation, in accordance with the principles of transparency, equal treatment, and open competition under the Procurement Act 2023. Information gathered may be used to inform our tender structure, lotting, and commercial approach. Potential bidders should note that this preliminary market engagement is not an invitation to tender or a request for formal expressions of interest. We are issuing this preliminary market engagement to assess the reaction of the market in order to ensure the procurement process is well-framed, focused, feasible and likely to be of interest to the market. Please note the following general conditions: - This preliminary market engagement will help us to refine our requirements. - We reserve the right not to proceed with the tender opportunity. - We will not be responsible for, or pay, any costs or losses or expenses which you or others incur during the preparation and submission of your preliminary market engagement response. - We expect that all responses to this preliminary market engagement will be provided by potential suppliers in good faith to the best of their ability in the light of information available at the time of their response. - No information provided by a potential Supplier in response to this preliminary market engagement will be carried forward, used, or acknowledged in any way for the purpose of evaluating the Supplier in any subsequent formal procurement process.