Barnet Homes has awarded the last of new ten-year contracts to maintain its council homes and estates.
Mitie Group has won a gas maintenance contract to service the gas heating in the homes of Barnet Homes’ tenants from 2012.
The Arms Length Management Organisation (ALMO), which manages 15,000 homes on behalf of Barnet Council, advertised the gas contract along with nine others covering a wide range of repairs and specialist maintenance jobs. In total the contracts are worth more than £200 million.
Tenders were weighted at 60 per cent quality and 40 per cent price.
The eight firms which have been awarded the contracts are:
- Mitie won the gas maintenance contractor
- Mears won both repairs and voids contracts
- Lovell won both planned and major works contracts and the electrical servicing and rewiring contract
- Woods Environmental won the asbestos removal contract
- Armstrong York won the asbestos testing and monitoring contract
- AJS won fire servicing and installations
- Hertel won the Legionella testing and remedial works contract
- Lift Specialists won lift maintenance and upgrades
Dozens of residents were involved in the different stages of the procurement process alongside staff from Barnet Homes.
Barnet Homes Chief Executive, Tracey Lees, said: “I’m very pleased to announce we have awarded our final contract to Mitie to carry out our gas maintenance from April 2012.
“We very much look forward to working with Mitie and the other seven contractors to deliver great services at great value on behalf of our residents over the next ten years.”