Construction materials and associated items. Boilers. Electrical supplies and accessories. Plumbing and heating materials. Fitted kitchens. The Hyde Group (THG) is looking to enter into a 5 + 5 year contract with a materials supply merchant to provide materials to circa 3 000 000 GBP per annum for its Direct Labour Organisation based in Chichester. Hyde Property Servcies (HPS) is THG's internal workforce. It has a main base in Chichester from which it currently provides response repairs, void work and an out of hours service; gas / heating / hot water servicing and breakdown repairs; investment work on kitchens, bathrooms, rewires and heating replacements and grounds maintenance to certain properties in the South region.

The requirements depart from the traditional merchant approach. Therefore we are looking to engage with a supply chain partner who has experience in setting up and managing a responsive repairs and planned works materials supply contract. The requirements include a dedicated standalone shop, storage space and staff to provide the service partnership, in isolation from the public trade counter approach. The facility to co-locate some Hyde staff is also critical. The proposed dedicated office/store must be located in Chichester.

The contract requirements include the management of van stock and its replenishment, in addition to providing the non van stock items, which is critical to the smooth efficient running of the service. 'Just in time' delivery service is also a must, to remove the waste in our operatives visiting the merchant, therefore reducing cost and inconvenience of unnecessary time spent on a job from a customer point of view.

Requirement Headlines:

— Specific local facility;

— Management of top /common parts and stocked against upper control limit;

— Identified non van stock items stocked as above;

— Benchmarked costs to continue to provide VFM;

— Available space for some co-located staff;

— Specific management of service with facility to use our fleet trackers for efficiency;

— Just in time delivery service in dedicated areas. Arrangements to be considered for remote areas of MB coverage;

— Materials for all service streams to be stocked;

— Automated/interfaced IT solution for ordering, stock replenishment and invoicing also linking with a tablet type solution for operatives;

— Web portal link based to GC numbers for boiler type parts and diagrams;

— Provide a measures suite to be agreed with THG's requirements;

— Be prepared to spend time with operatives to fully understand the operational issues;

— Seek and recommend suitable alternative goods to drive our cost base;

— Have facilities for a training room for trade staff toolbox talks and other local training;

— Ability to expand with HPS, providing support for external tenders;

— Support with COSHH data sheets and H&S requirements;

— Provision for a waste recycling centre to improve stats and prevent land fill.