Planned Preventative Maintenance and Emergency Repair of Appliance Bay Doors, Roller Shutter Doors, Vehicular Barriers and Gates for West Midlands Fire & Rescue Authority

West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority is seeking a company to supply electrical and mechanical services, expertise and parts as required to provide an effective planned preventative maintenance programme of all appliance bay doors, roller shutters, gates and barriers for 41 West Midlands Fire Service sites across the West Midlands Area broken into three lots:

Lot 1 - Black Country Lot 2 - Birmingham Lot 3 - Coventry & Solihull

Companies wishing to tender may bid for any combination or all lots.

This Programme will include four annual inspection/maintenance visits (February/May/August/November) together with the provision of a 365, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week emergency callout service to cover plant or service breakdown. The successful contractor must ensure that he can adequately cover the West Midlands area and that call outs can be dealt with within 2 hours of receipt of a P1 (Priority 1) call for emergency repairs.

The company must be experienced in this field and able to demonstrate its professional and technical competence in providing a regular service.

Companies wishing to tender for this contract must have or be willing to obtain £5m public liability and employer's liability cover and a minimum turnover of £440,000 per annum (for all 3 lots) or separately turnover for lot 1 would be £150,000, lot 2, £170,000 and lot 3, £120,000. In addition they should ideally be members of the Door Hardware Federation, or equivalent or be willing to obtain similar accreditation if successful. Full details can be found at Schedule 2 of the documentation.

The award of the contract is expected to be mid-February 2018 with a contract start date of 1st May 2018. The contract shall be for two years with an option to extend for two further years.

For full details (see schedule 2 - specification