Find a TenderAwarded
Published 9 Apr 2025, 15:31 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Annual Maintenance and Reactive Repairs Maintenance Services for existing Heating Installations

Official notice

Authority: Southside Housing Association (Housing)

ServicesOpen procedureSME suitable
Published estimate£370,000exc. VAT · 1 value update
Submissions closed 1 May 2025awarded 19 Jun 2025
Awarded to James Frew Ltd

What is being bought

Published requirement description

1.1 The Contract primarily involves providing an annual maintenance service and 24 hour a day 365 days a year reactive repairs maintenance service to existing heating installations throughout tenant occupied properties within the Cardonald and Pollokshields areas of Glasgow. The Contract duration is two years (twenty-four months) from the commencement date of 1st July 2025 until 30th June 2027, and will primarily include;

  • Annual maintenance servicing of Air Source Heat Pump heating installations;
  • Annual maintenance servicing of Unvented Cylinder Heating installations;
  • Operation and Condition Check of interconnected smoke detectors and heat alarms which shall be replaced by the Contractor where existing alarms are missing; and
  • A reactive maintenance repairs service to properties with Air Source Heat Pump heating systems (refer ASHP Properties address list incorporated within Tender Document 4). The reactive maintenance repairs service shall include replacement of defective parts and components including any part or components requiring replacement that are identified during the annual maintenance service visits to Air Source Heat Pump installations only. The reactive maintenance repairs service will be provided by the Contractor on a 24 hours a day 365 days a year basis incorporating reactive maintenance repairs notified by Southside Housing Association’s customers during normal working hours and out with normal working hours. The reactive repairs service will also include an Out of Hours call handling service provided by the Contractor who shall receive calls directly from the customers of Southside Housing Association out with normal working hours and the Contractor will thereafter make safe or complete all emergency repairs notified by customers of Southside Housing Association out with normal working hours.

Subject to satisfactory performance of the Contractor, which will be assessed through measurement of the Key Performance Indicator’s (Refer Tender Document 8) it is intended that the Contract will be further extended annually in twelve months increments up to a maximum of three years and an overall maximum contract period of five years.

  • Recurrence: 2027 at the earliest if the optional 12 month extensions are not applied

CPV: Air heaters · Central-heating radiator valves · Central-heating radiators · Central-heating radiators and boilers and parts · Commissioning of heating installations · Electrical wiring work · Heat pumps · Heat-exchange units, air-conditioning and refrigerating equipment, and filtering machinery · Heating engineering services for buildings · Heating equipment · Heating materials · Heating pipes · +8 more

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Single Stage Tendering in accordance with Regulations 28 (Open Procedure) of the…AwardedRenewalPublished value£370,000

Single Stage Tendering in accordance with Regulations 28 (Open Procedure) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. Additional information: 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.

SPD Question 2D.1.2- Bidders must provide a separate SPD response (Sections A and B of this Part and Part III) for each subcontractor.

Delivery: Scotland · Cardonald and Pollokshields, Glasgow
Extensions: May take up option of twelve month extensions up to a maximum of three further years (2027-2030) at an estimated value 74000 GBP (excluding VAT) per annum. Southside Housing Association's estimated annual budget for the contract is 74000 GBP excluding VAT.Variant bids: not allowed

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored
Quality: 60%Price: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Quality: 60
  • Price: 40
Conditions of participation3
  • Suitability

    MCS Service Certified mcscertified.com ↗;

    FGas Certified; and

    NICEIC or SELECT membership

    or equivalent

  • Economic & financial standing

    Bidders will be required to have a minimum 'general' yearly turnover of 148000 GBP for the last two years or have an average yearly

    turnover of a minimum of 148000 GBP for the last two years.

    Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date which they were set

    up or started trading.

    It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any subsequently awarded

    contract, the types and levels of insurances indicated below:

    Employer's (Compulsory) Liability Insurance - 5,000,000 GBP

    Public Liability Insurance - 5,000,000 GBP

  • Technical & professional ability

    Bidders must be able to provide two examples of similar Maintenance Services and Responsive Repairs services including Out of Hours

    Call Handling for existing heating installations similar to the requirements of Southside Housing Association undertaken during the last

    three years that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the services/supplies as described in part II.2.4 of the Find a

    Tender Service Contract Notice or the relevant section of the Site Notice.

    Bidders are required to confirm whether they intend to subcontract and, if so, for what proportion of the contract.

Staff
Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Awarded
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Yes · 2027 at the earliest if the optional 12 month extensions are not applied
First published
9 Apr 2025, 15:31 BST
Last source update
8 Jul 2025, 11:51 BST
Award evaluation window
17 Apr 2025 – …
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-038189
Classification (CPV)
Air heatersCentral-heating radiator valvesCentral-heating radiatorsCentral-heating radiators and boilers and partsCommissioning of heating installationsElectrical wiring workHeat pumpsHeat-exchange units, air-conditioning and refrigerating equipment, and filtering machineryHeating engineering services for buildingsHeating equipment
+10 moreHeating materialsHeating pipes
Delivery area
Scotland (UKM82)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04eea6 Find a Tender
Contract terms
Electronic trading
e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
Performance terms

'Tender Document 8- Key Performance Indicators'' attached to this Contract Notice.

Where performance falls below the minimum acceptable level during the Contract, the Contractor will be required to produce a Remedial

Plan for the approval of Southside Housing Association.

Failure to produce a Remedial Plan or implement an approved Remedial Plan will be deemed to be a breach of the Contract, which may

lead to the termination of the Contractor

Publisher note: (SC Ref:803743)

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: Public Contracts Scotland · Who buys & how to bid on PCS
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free single registration for Scotland; PCS-Tender (Jaggaer) for full bidding

Tender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk ↗

Submission deadline
1 May 2025, 12:00 BST
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission"}
Accepted languages
en
Bids opened
17 Apr 2025, 12:00 BST
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

17 Apr 2025 → 16 Jul 2025 · 4 dates
  1. Bids opened
    17 Apr 2025, 12:00 BST
  2. Submission deadline
    1 May 2025, 12:00 BST
  3. Notice published
    8 Jul 2025, 11:51 BST
  4. Bids must remain valid until
    16 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST

Notice history

5 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 9 Apr 2025
  1. Published value published: £370,000
    9 Apr 2025, 15:31 BST
  2. Status changed to active
    9 Apr 2025, 15:31 BST
  3. Procurement method changed
    9 Apr 2025, 15:31 BST
  4. Deadline moved to 17 Apr 2025, 12:00 BST
    9 Apr 2025, 15:31 BST
    -14 days · was 1 May 2025, 12:00 BST
  5. Status changed to complete
    8 Jul 2025, 11:51 BST
Published amendments (1 · 1 deadline change)
WhenWhatBeforeAfterShift
—DeadlineTime limit · IV.2.217 Apr 20251 May 2025+14 d
—Bid validityMinimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender · IV.2.616 Jul 202530 Jul 2025+14 d
—Bid openingConditions for opening of tenders · IV.2.717 Apr 20251 May 2025+14 d

To facilitate bidder's request to extend the tender period

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £65,5911 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 42 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 19 Jun 2025
Awarded toValueDateStatus
James Frew LtdSME£65,591 †—Awarded

Contracts

  • Contract 038189-2025-1 · James Frew LtdSME

    Signed
    19 Jun 2025
    Value
    £65,591
    Status
    active

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
4bids · 4 electronic · 4 from abroad2——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Southside Housing Association Ltd

Contracting authorityHousingRegistered Social LandlordHousing and community amenities 135 Fifty Pitches Rd, Cardonald, Glasgow, Scotland, G514EBContact name, email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Glasgow Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace CourtReview body Glasgow

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • James Frew LtdAwarded supplier James Frew Ltd, 83 New Street, Stevenston, Scotland, KA20 3HDContact phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.