Domestic Gas Boiler/Appliance Maintenance and Annual Servicing/Safety Checks

Description

Falkirk Council wishes to undertake a tendering process to enter into a Framework Agreement with suitably experienced Gas Safe registered contractors for the provision of Gas Heating Maintenance and Annual Servicing/Safety Checks to Council Housing Properties within the Falkirk Council Area of operation. Lot 1: Provision of a Domestic Gas Heating Maintenance and Annual Servicing/Safety Checks to Council Housing Properties within the Falkirk Council Areas of Operations. Key aims is the delivery of annual service & safety checks of all Council gas central heating installations to all applicable Council houses within the Falkirk Council Area, timeously and to the required standard, providing a competitive, reliable and customer-focused service. The works mainly comprise of:- - Maintenance Service of gas appliances including all breakdowns - Emergency response time of 3 hours of notification - 24 hours / 7 days a week emergency cover - Provide sufficient heating (temporary heaters) and hot water facilities in the event that gas appliances will be inoperative overnight or long period of time. - Provision of spare parts and components - Annual Safety Checks/Servicing as instructed on a monthly basis. Where hot water facilities are unavailable, the Contractor should aim to re-instate hot water supplies within 24 hours as per the Priority 1 response requirement or provide a temporary means of supply until rectification of issue. Arranging program of service works as instructed to ensure each Council property with gas appliances is safety checked within the timescales provided. This is a framework agreement to which a maximum of up to 5 contractors will be appointed. In practice The Authority may therefore utilise a number of organisations for provision of the service dependent on price, availability and local circumstances.. Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015