Building installation work. Electrical wiring and fitting work. Thermal insulation work. Fencing, railing and safety equipment installation work. Building completion work. Installation of doors and windows and related components. Installation of door and window frames. Floor and wall covering work. Floor-laying work. Painting and glazing work. Application work of protective coatings. Painting work. Repainting work. Drainage works. Sanitary works. Woodwork. Asbestos-removal work. Television aerial installation work. Satellite dishes. Electric conductors for access control systems. Ceiling or wall light fittings. Electrical supplies and accessories. Access control system. Armoured or reinforced doors. Locks, keys and hinges. Construction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual houses. Roof-covering work. Flashing and guttering work. Scaffolding work. Cladding works. The object of the contract(s) to which this Document relates is to deliver the programme of external fabric and common area improvement works which will bring GHA’s housing stock to a condition which meets or exceeds the Scottish Housing Quality Standard. Similar improvements to non-housing properties may be delivered under the proposed arrangements.
The main elements of the external fabric improvement works are the replacement of life expired roof coverings and the application of an insulated external render system to walls. Secondary elements include cavity wall insulation; roof insulation; roof repairs; fascia and soffit renewal and replacement; gutter renewal; associated works to chimneys (including gas safety work where necessary); rainwater, soil and vent downpipe alterations or renewal associated with the insulated render system, moving and/or replacing external lighting etc; stone cleaning and pointing; cavity wall insulation; window replacement; repairs, pointing and painting to walls; asbestos removal or encapsulation; and installation of communal TV aerial systems. This list is non-exclusive and the scope of the contract includes all other works which can reasonably be described as constituting improvements to the external fabric of the properties.
The main elements of the common area improvement works are controlled door entry system installation; timber or steel front and rear close doors; improvements to or complete replacement of stair lighting installations; close re-decoration of walls, ceilings, stair soffits and floors; window replacement; and erection of handrails. This list is non-exclusive and the scope of the contract includes all other works which can reasonably be described as constituting improvements to the common areas of the properties.
All work associated with each property is to be carried out in a single continuous operation without gaps in the delivery of individual elements of the improvements.
Properties to be improved will, for the most part, be terraced houses; semi-detached houses; 4 in a block; pre 1919 tenements; inter war tenements and post war tenements. Some improvements may be required to deck access type properties and some non-housing properties of seven stories in height or less.
The contract documents establish GHA’s technical and other requirements relating to the improvements however it is intended that the contractor shall also develop the aesthetic and technical design solutions to satisfy GHA’s requirements and shall have sole responsibility for those aesthetic and technical design solutions.
To deliver the external fabric and common area improvement works, GHA envisages the establishment of a framework of three contractors. GHA envisages that it will develop programmes of work on an annual basis. To deliver the annual programmes, it is envisaged that subject to available capacity and satisfactory performance against the framework objectives, each call off contract will be awarded to the framework contractor who submitted the most economically advantageous tender, subject always to the reserved right of GHA to conduct a mini-competition. The contract documents set out the precise terms upon which call offs will be made.
In addition to the core requirement to carry out external fabric and common area improvements, within the contract documents GHA set out specific requirements regarding health and safety, quality, environmental responsibility, corporate and social responsibility, customer focus, and other issues.
GHA is acting as a central purchasing body for all current and future GHA subsidiary companies. Amongst others, these include YourPlace, GHA’s subsidiary responsible for factoring housing properties.
GHA is also acting as a central purchasing body for other organisations involved in providing or managing social housing, whose properties are located within the Glasgow City Local Authority boundary, or within the boundaries of the six adjoining Local Authorities, [viz. East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, and South Lanarkshire}. It is envisaged that contract awards by other contracting authorities on whose behalf the GHA is purchasing will be at the discretion of those other contracting authorities.
GHA makes no representation or guarantee that it will instruct works falling within the above scope by means of the proposed arrangements and will reserve the absolute right to award any of such works to such other providers as it chooses.