The large landlord partnership is seeking contractors for various home improvement and construction works to a value of £1bn
The Guinness Partnership’s £1bn contract is for multiple regional contractors throughout the country, for works with their own allotted value.
The Guinness Partnership is one of the biggest providers of social housing and care service providers in England.
The Guinness Partnership £1bn project will provide for over 70,000 properties
The partnership is seeking contractors that operate within the following regions:
- Northwest and Greater Manchester – £320m across 20,000 properties
- Yorkshire, Humberside, and East Midlands – £155m across 11,000 properties
- Home Counties – £110m across 9,000 properties
- South East & Coast, and Greater London – £260m across 19,000 properties
- South West – £170m across 11,000 properties
All regions covered in the Guinness Partnership £1bn project will have a mixture of properties, including general needs, supported housing, and leaseholder and shared ownership properties, and are mostly made up of flats and houses.
Works will involve:
- Construction works
- Solar panels
- Fire-alarm systems
- Heat pumps
- Sprinkler systems
- Cladding
- Central heating radiators, boilers, and parts
- Repair and maintenance services
- Building services
The works will also specifically include kitchen and bathroom replacements, roofing work, electrical, external and internal decorating, window replacements, structural repairs, and de-carbonisation and sustainability retrofitting.
The framework will last for 15 years
The Guinness Partnership is one of the largest collective landlords in the country, and has set ambitious targets, including a tenant satisfaction of 80% by 2025, which these works will likely be working towards.
The works will be especially pertinent for those in social housing, as they are more likely to suffer from poorer quality and issues that lower quality of life.
The Government has set targets to build 1.5m new homes by the end of its term. Housing charity Shelter stated earlier this year that in order to meet those targets, affordability must be key, and of the homes built each year, at least 90,000 of them must be social housing.
