Beechdale awards £9.5 million contract

Beechdale Community Housing Association (BCHA) has awarded a contract worth over £9.5million to Morrison Facilities Services keep its homes up to standard over the next five years.

Alan Critchley, BCHA property asset manager, said: “The new contract comes into operation on 1st April this year and information is being sent to all BCHA tenants to ensure they are fully informed of the change. We are looking forward to working with Morrisons to deliver a first rate service to our tenants.”

The five year contract has an option to extend it for a further five years and covers the provision of responsive repairs, work on empty properties, planned maintenance, cyclical works and gas servicing and repairs.

It is the first major contract that BCHA, which owns and manages around 1,240 homes on the Beechdale estate in Walsall, has had to procure through European legislation and the announcement follows a four-month procurement process.

Contractors were invited to submit expressions of interest in October and a shortlist was drawn up before site visits took place to inspect examples of work, maintenance processes and examples of resident involvement each company could demonstrate before a decision was made.