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Arches Housing Ltd was established in 1975 and has over 30 years experience of providing good quality affordable housing within South Yorkshire. In 2005 Arches Housing became a recognised Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) housing association with more than 80 percent of their Board Members from minority communities.

Arches Housing provide over 900 affordable homes for their customers in Sheffield and Rotherham.

Arches Housing uses a number of contractors to service its repairs and voids maintenance, with no main contractor in place. Arches Housing is tendering to appoint to a framework agreement a variety of contractors, with no main contractor (trade specialists are welcome) against four lots. For all lots, Arches Housing is seeking a number of contractors who can provide day to day repairs within inhabited properties using a Schedule of Rates system. Full details regarding which Schedule and the form of contract will be provided at the ITT stage.

For clarity Arches Housing is seeking bids from contractors to participate in a responsive repairs and voids framework consisting of the following lots:

Lot 1- General repairs and void maintenance

Lot 2- Plumbing repairs and void maintenance

Lot 3- Electrical repairs and void maintenance

Lot 4- Out of hours repairs, emergency repairs and call handling

Bidders can bid on one or more lot.

This framework is intended to cover work to Arches Housings stock within the Sheffield and Rotherham areas. Currently, approximately 900 properties are located in Sheffield, and 80 within the Rotherham area.

Please note: Successful bidders will be expected to be able to deliver all services within the lot(s) bid for, no further subdivision will occur. Successful bidders cannot subcontract any work to third party contractors.

The proposed framework will last for a maximum of 4 years and will consist of 5 contractors in each lot; except for lot 4, where the number of participating contractors is envisaged to be 3. Arches Housing reserve the right to award call-off contracts of varying length, subject to the work required and the needs of Arches Housing.