National procurement consortium Procurement for Housing is the latest body to seek to appoint a panel of contractors to deliver essential fire safety upgrade works.
The framework will be divided into seven lots with regions and value bands. A separate framework has recently been procured for fire safety consultancy services.
PfH Fire safety works framework
Lot 1: Active works – total value £50m
(fire protection systems including but not limited to fire and smoke alarms, extinguishers, AOV’s, dry and wet risers and emergency lighting)
Lot 2: Passive works
(Fire-resistant rated compartmentation works, replacement fire doors to PAS 24 standards, wet/dry riser works, fire sealing and damping, signage and photoluminescent path markers)
Lot 3: Fire Doors – Contractor supply and install of doors – value £50m
Lot 4: Fire Doors- Manufacturer supply and install – value £25m
Lot 5: Fire doors – Manufacturer supply only – value £25m
Lot 6: Cladding – value £25m
(Replacement ACM cladding panels with new fire-resistant cladding systems with compartmentation)
Lot 7: Whole Building Works – value £50m
PfH is expecting to award each l0t to five firms for three years with a possible further two-year extension.
Firms have until 12 September to submit applications which can be found on the web portal.
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