Passive Fire Protection

Efficiency East Midlands Ltd (EEM) is a not for profit consortium which establishes and manages a range of framework and DPS agreements. Our membership has now grown to 261 public sector organisations including housing associations and ALMO's, Local Authorities, NHS trusts, Education Providers, Blue Light Services, Government Agencies and Charities. EEM have also established a formal collaboration with 3 like-minded procurement consortia -Westworks, South East Consortium and Advantage South West.

The membership list for these three consortia may be obtained from the following website addresses:

(www.westworks.org.uk ↗)

(www.southeastconsortium.org.uk ↗)

(www.advantagesouthwest.co.uk ↗)

EEM are conducting this tender exercise to procure a Passive Fire Protection Framework to replace our existing Framework which will expire late 2022. The Framework will provide EEM Members with a provision for their Passive Fire Protection including but not limited to, carrying out surveys, fire door installs and repairs, compartmental surveys and remedial works, covering high and low rise buildings. The Framework agreement will be for a period of 48 months, running from Monday 14th November 2022 to 13th November 2026. It is expected that a maximum of 8 Contractors may be appointed onto each of the geographical lots of the Framework, ensuring that all our member's requirements are covered taking into consideration the range of locations our members are located in. The Framework requires EEM to cover the UK under the following sub lots:

Lot 1 is being created to support Members with the geographical area Midlands.

Lot 2 is being created to support Members with the geographical area London.

Lot 3 is being created to support Members with the geographical area National.

Further details and how to respond to this tender or review the documentation, please:

1. Go to the portal xantive.supplierselect.com ↗

(xantive.supplierselect.com ↗)

Additional information: The call-off contracts to be awarded pursuant to the framework agreements to be entered at conclusion of the procurement exercise may extend for a duration of up to 5 years beyond expiry of the 4-year framework term. Please note that the total potential framework value stated within this notice is in relation to the full 4-year framework and takes into consideration the lot structure, length of call off contracts and that the EEM membership may grow over the framework lifetime. Where the contract notice states a maximum of suppliers to be appointed to the Framework. EEM reserves the right to appoint less than the numbers stated. This framework is being procured by Efficiency East Midlands Ltd (EEM) on behalf of their members and the other organisations described below as being authorised users. The following contracting authorities will be entitled to agree and award contracts under this framework agreement as Authorised Users:

1. any Member of EEM which for the avoidance of doubt currently includes 3 partner consortia -

(www.westworks.org.uk ↗)

Advantage South West

(www.advantagesouthwest.co.uk ↗)

and South East Consortium

(www.southeastconsortium.org.uk ↗)

A full list of current members is available at www.eem.org.uk ↗

(www.eem.org.uk ↗)

2. any future member of EEM or our partner consortia and in all cases being an organisation which has applied to join EEM or our partner consortia in accordance with the applicable constitutional documents;
3. An EEM participant being an organisation which is neither a current or EEM

member (as defined at 1 above) nor a future member of EEM (as defined at 2

above). Further details regarding the authorised users of this framework can be found in the ITT documents. To respond to this tender or review the documentation,

please:

1. Go to the portal (xantive.supplierselect.com ↗

(xantive.supplierselect.com ↗)

2. If you need to register a new account follow the prompts to set up your organisation;
3. When you sign in select 'Public Projects' from the menu (top right). A list of all open tenders will be displayed;
4. Select 'EEM0053 Passive Fire Protection from the list of projects and then 'Create Opportunity'. That will give you access to the basic information;
5. Click 'Accept Opportunity' to get more detail including all clarification logs.

There is no obligation to submit a response;

6. If you do wish to submit a response, do so before the deadline by changing the status to submitted. You will only be allowed to submit if every mandatory question is answered