Lift-maintenance services

Tender description

The Council requires an external contractor with skilled engineers to deliver a first class lift repairs and maintenance service to its housing and public building lifts. The council requires the following: 1) A responsive repairs service to respond to and rectify any breakdown or malfunction of any part of the lift equipment. The contractor will be required to respond in accordance with the priority category allocated to each request. This service is required to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; 2) A planned preventative maintenance service that keeps all lifts in good working order and minimises breakdowns, and takes into account economic life factors with regards to replacement of components. (Definition of economic life factor: the estimated number of years until that item no longer represents the least expensive method of performing its function); 3) The responsive repairs and planned inspection and servicing of Electronic Monitoring Units (EMU) where they are fitted in lifts. The contractor will also be required to fit new EMUs as required.