CTO82 – HEATING AND THERMAL IMPROVEMENT CONTRACT 2024

The Northern Ireland Housing Executive is a landlord providing over 85,000 social homes for rent across Northern Ireland and is responsible for the maintenance, repair, servicing, replacement of boilers and heating systems within its properties to meet its obligations as a landlord where the Contracting Authority requires work to be undertaken across all three regions.

The heating installation and maintenance service programme has a key role in the delivery of the corporate plan’s vision, ‘everyone is able to live in an affordable, sustainable and decent home, appropriate to their needs, in a safe and climate-resilient place,’ and corporate sustainable development strategy aim for the built environment, ‘reduce energy demand, principally through a fabric first approach to reduce fuel poverty and deliver net zero heating in order to reduce carbon emissions in line with the national target of Net Zero.

It is anticipated that other thermal improvement works such as cavity wall insulation, roof insulation, airtightness measures and decarbonised heating systems will be included in this contract.

NIHE intends to advertise a competition to source suitable Economic Operators to support NIHE in providing this statutory service on eTendersNI in summer 2023 with a contract start date of 1st May 2024. It is anticipated that the initial contract will be for a period of 3 years with the option to extend for a further period of up to 4 years (potential total period of 7 years) however this is subject to change at the Contracting Authorities discretion.

The proposed areas to be covered by the contract and approximate annual values are as follows:

Lot 1 – Belfast (North / West Belfast) - £17.9m

Lot 2 – South (Mid Ulster / South Area / South West Area) –16.5m

Lot 3 – North (Causeway Area/ West Area) – 15.9m

Lot 4 – Belfast (South & East Belfast / Lisburn & Castlereagh) – 14.6m

Lot 5 – North (South Antrim / East Area) – 14.5m

Lot 6 – South (North Down Ards / South Down) – 13.3m

The actual value for each Lot shall be subject to change in line with the Contracting Authorities requirements. The Tender will be advertised using the Open Procedure. Each lot will be awarded to the most economically advantageous tender with an assessment on social value (minimum 10%) additional quality criteria and price. The successful Economic Operators will be required to provide those social value requirements identified as mandatory from 1st September 2021, as per Procurement Policy Note 01/21 - Scoring Social Value. In order to inform the market of the upcoming opportunities and in order to gauge market capacity, NIHE will host a Meet the Buyer event on 27th April 2023 in Rooms 1 and 2 Twickenham House Ballymena. If you wish to attend this event please confirm your attendance by email to martin.mclaughlin@nihe.gov.uk no later than 5pm on Wednesday 5th April. Please note that currently we only have capacity for one attendee per Economic Operator but should anymore spaces become available any Economic Operator who has confirmed an interest will be informed and additional places will be assigned on a first come first serve basis. Any economic operator who wishes to attend the event must complete a request for information form which will be issued once attendance is requested and must be completed and returned to martin.mclaughlin@nihe.gov.uk no later than 5pm Wednesday 12th April. The information gathered will be used to assess the best approach for the tendering and awarding of the new contracts and assure best value for money across the regions. All information contained within this PIN such as, the above tender strategy, indicative date of publication of the contract notice, and scope of works is subject to change at the Contracting Authorities absolute discretion following feedback obtained from the meet the buyer event and request for information exercise.