LIFT MAINTENANCE & REPAIR SERVICES CONTRACT 2022

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Queens Cross Housing Association are seeking to appoint a suitable supplier to perform lift maintenance and repair services for lifts in various properties within the Glasgow Area Queens Cross Housing Association are seeking to appoint a suitable supplier to perform lift maintenance and repair services to lifts within various properties in the Glasgow Area. The contract will involve fully comprehensive planned preventative maintenance and repair services including a breakdown call-out service operating 24 hours a day for the Association’s lifts It is anticipated that the contract to be awarded may require the transfer of staff under the provisions of Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE). Liability information is provided for the existing supplier. The supplier will need to liaise with the transferee to determine the measures the transferee may envisage taking with respect to the employees in order to carry out proper consultation. The transferee is required under TUPE to provide employee liability information in relation to any employees which are assigned to existing contracts. The initial contract period will be for 3 years and the contract may be extended for up to a further 2 years after the initial 3 year contract period. Any extension will be at the sole discretion of Queens Cross Housing Association and based on satisfactory performance and subject to negotiation. -During the course of the contract the number of lifts may increase or reduce to reflect property acquisitions, disposals or other amendments which may include change of use. -The supplier will be required to ensure compliance and assist Queens Cross Housing Association in ensuring compliance with all statutory legislation specifically: -the Management of Health and Safety Regulations 1999 (MHSW) -the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) -the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER) -SAFed LG1 Guidelines on the Supplementary Tests of In-Service Lifts -British Standard 7255 (Safe Working on Lifts) -British Standard EN 81-80 (Rules for the improvement of safety of existing passenger and goods passenger lifts) -British Standards 5655 parts 11/12:2005 - Code of practice for the undertaking of modifications to existing electric lifts/hydraulic lifts. -The Economic Operator will be required to ensure safe operation of the lift equipment, prolong equipment life, minimise equipment out of service time and respond to breakdowns and passenger entrapments within service level agreement time scales. -All personnel employed by the supplier to deliver the contract services shall be suitably trained and technically competent. -NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/ The awarding authority has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via a 'Tender Submission post box' facility. Further details of this facility are available at http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/ Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems. The post box closes precisely at the time stated.