Construction materials and associated items

Tender description

The Cirrus Consortium is a procurement consortium that currently consists of in excess of 100 members including registered providers of social housing, local authorities, ALMOs and NHS Trusts. The Consortium requested bids for the following lots: — Lot 1: general building materials (including paint and tools), — Lot 2: plumbing and heating materials (including gas spares and renewables), — Lot 3: electrical materials, — Lot 4: highways and civil materials, — Lot 5: managed stores, — Lot 6: tool and plant hire. The outcome of the tender process is a 4 year framework agreement that commenced in August 2019. 15 suppliers were awarded a position on the framework. General building materials including lightside and heavyside products, paint, tools and associated supply services. Plumbing and heating materials (including gas spares and renewables) and associated supply services. Electrical materials supply including accessories, cabling and other electrical components and associated supply services. Highway/civil construction and maintenance materials. A managed stores solution is where a single merchant delivers a managed service for the provision of building materials to a client. The relationship most commonly involves the merchant supplying all building materials that may be required by the client. The core service is usually delivered through one of the following methods: — the merchants existing branch network, usually with a dedicated stock holding at one or more of the branches local to the client, — from a dedicated standalone stores site operated solely for the client, — a delivery service, — using a combination of the options shown above. Additional services the merchant may provide to a client through a managed stores solution may include, but may not be limited to: — direct integration with client IT systems, — dedicated stock holding, — van stock management, — provision of welfare facilities at existing branches/standalone stores for use by client staff, — waste management facilities and other ancillary services, — factoring items from third party suppliers merchants providing a managed stores solution will be required to provide the full range of materials that may be required by the Consortium members. Suppliers bidding on lot 5 must be able to comprehensively supply materials covering all categories named in lots 1 to 3. Suppliers bidding on lot 5 may choose whether or not they also bid on lots 1 to 3 separately. Tool and plant hire.