Notice Information
Notice Title
Painting and Decorating Framework
Notice Description
The University of Edinburgh has appointed contractors to join a Painting and Decorating Framework agreement for works across the estate. The Framework Agreement will include the entire University of Edinburgh estate together with other property owned, occupied or otherwise used by the University of Edinburgh. Lists of University of Edinburgh properties are provided within this Invitation to Tender. The University estate comprises a number of listed buildings. The quality of work delivered across the entire estate should meet specified standards at all times, but particular attention will be brought to the specification of maintenance work on a listed property. The framework agreement will operate under the Scotland (FA/Scot) 2014 Edition incorporating the Measured Term Contract for use in Scotland (MTC/Scot) 2019 Edition all as published by the Scottish Building Contract Committee. This Framework Agreement will be operational for a period of three plus one years. The Framework is tendered on behalf of The University of Edinburgh and all University of Edinburgh Subsidiary Companies. Any, and all, of The University of Edinburgh's Subsidiary Companies may access and utilise this Framework at any time during the life of the agreement.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The University of Edinburgh wishes to appoint contractors to provide Painting and Decorating works across the estate via a framework. The framework will run from 1st October 2025 for a period of 3 years until 30th September 2028 with the option to extend by a further 12 months to 30th September 2029. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if there are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015
Options: This contract will run for an initial period of 36 months. As detailed in the ITT, the University has the option to extend this contract by one period of 12 months, potentially taking the contract to a total of 48 months.
Renewal: Retender process to begin nine months prior to expiry
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04ce10
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/040703-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Framework
- Procurement Category
- Works
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large, SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
45 - Construction work
-
- CPV Codes
45442100 - Painting work
45442180 - Repainting work
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £5,147,493 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £5,147,493 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 17 Jul 20257 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 10 Feb 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 25 Jun 20258 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Nine months prior to expiry
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
- Contact Name
- Steven Glynn
- Contact Email
- sglynn2@ed.ac.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 1316502759
Buyer Location
- Locality
- EDINBURGH
- Postcode
- EH1 1HT
- Post Town
- Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM1 East Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM13 City of Edinburgh
- Delivery Location
- TLM75 City of Edinburgh
-
- Local Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Electoral Ward
- City Centre
- Westminster Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
Further Information
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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