Priory :Learning Trust ~ FM Services Tender

The Priory Learning Trust is a Multi Academy Trust (MAT) of both Primary and Secondary Schools.

The successful Supplier will be required to provide facilities management support, in terms of mechanical and electrical engineering, for both compliance and planned and preventative maintenance (PPM) at the following nine locations within the Trust:

Priory Community School – An Academy, Queensway, Weston-Super-Mare, BS22 6BP

Worle Community School – An Academy, Redwing Drive, Weston-Super-Mare, BS22 8XX

The King Alfred School – An Academy, Burnham Road, Highbridge, TA9 3EE

Castle Batch Primary School Academy, Rawlins Avenue, Worle, Weston-Super-Mare, BS22 7FN

St Anne’s Church Academy (West Wick), 1 Scot Elm Drive, West Wick, Weston-Super-Mare, BS24 7JU

St Anne’s Church Academy (Hewish), Bristol Road, Hewish, Weston-Super-Mare, BS24 6RT

Pawlett Primary School Academy, Gaunts Road, Pawlett, TA6 4SB

West Huntspill Primary Academy, New Road, West Huntspill, Highbridge, TA9 3QE

East Huntspill Primary Academy, New Road, East Huntspill, Highbridge, TA9 3PYT

The contract covers the scope for the provision of all building services, planned and preventative maintenance of all M&E assets, ad-hoc engineering support (including out of hours and/or remote support) and the maintenance of a detailed and up-to-date asset register with opening conditions survey.

The successful contractor will be expected to deliver a concise, while providing sufficient detail, method of management reporting at the end of each month, thus updating the senior management team within the Trust on the contract performance on an Academy-by-Academy basis.

A key objective of the Trust is to facilitate an exceptional, safe learning environment for all staff and students, ensuring that the Trust’s estate is well maintained and pro-actively reviewed to ensure long-term strategic planning.

The Trust are seeking a suitably experienced contractor who is able to evidence working within the education sector. The successful contractor will already have a strong operational base within the South-West, thus allowing for both adequate contract support and operational flexibility that is to be delivered to support the contract as and when needed moving forwards into this contract term.

A suitable Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) system is expected to be required with a client-facing portal or dashboard providing live access to documents, management data, asset reports and current PPM status. Ideally this would be linked to the successful Contractor’s Helpdesk to display outstanding actions and logged jobs with works quotations and completion status.

The duration of the contract being offered is for an initial three-year period commencing on 1 April 2022 and concluding on 31 March 2025, with the potential to extend for a further period of two 12-month periods (+1 +1). This extension will be granted by mutual consent and on the same terms and conditions as the original contract without the right to further extend beyond the full five years.

The contract being offered within this tender will be on a guaranteed performance basis.

See the SQ document for more details. Additional information: To respond to this opportunity please click here: litmustms.co.uk/respond/E6W59P76DH ↗