13 September 2011
Vinci Facilities, Ecovert FM, Mitie, Ocean Group and Initial Building Services are among the suppliers awarded places on a major London universities' framework agreement.
The three-year deal with a one-year extension option has been set up by the collaborative London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC).
The framework and its 21 suppliers cover fabric maintenance, mechanical and electrical, lifts, asbestos services and water compliance.
Suppliers are “a mix of larger national/multi-national firms and local SMEs, with proven experience delivering these services to higher education, further education, research and cultural sectors, as well as the wider public sector and private sector”.
Users can choose a supplier to handle each service and also contract a supplier via the ‘one-stop-shop’ to handle all their fabric and M&E needs, according to a statement by the LUPC.
The contract allows for 'mini-competitions' among suppliers to finalise the contract and ensure competitive pricing within the framework, the statement said.
The LUPC’s more than 70 members include London and area colleges of higher education, universities, the British Library, Natural History Museum, Courtauld Institute of Art, Rambert School of Ballet, the British Film Institute, Kew Gardens and the Royal College of Surgeons.
The LUPC is a not-for-profit organisation set up in 1968 and owned by its members. It is one of the higher education sector's purchasing consortia in England that constitute the English National Purchasing Consortium.
The other three are the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Group, North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium and Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium.
Other news for Tuesday, 13 September 2011:
Suppliers join London unis' framework
Chester Boyd strikes catering gold
Mercury signs £28m deal with Somerset
Mitie and Essex set to sign outsourcing deal
Union warns of outsourcing fraud risk
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