Dorset Council Reactive & Planned Repairs and Maintenance – Property and Housing

This Preliminary Market Engagement Notice is not a call for competition. It is being published to give notice to the market of an upcoming procurement.
Dorset Council is undertaking early market engagement, with the aim of providing information to and requesting feedback from the market, about aspects of the Council's procurement strategy for reactive and planned Repairs and Maintenance for building fabric, M&E and associated works and services and to help inform the decision-making process on the procurement of these works and services.
Any procurement will be carried out in accordance with relevant Procurement Regulations.
Dorset Council may commence one or more procurements in respect of this notice subject to final scope and structure, but also reserves the right not to commence any procurement in respect of this notice.
Dorset Council shall not be liable for any losses incurred by any party as a result of reliance on the information contained/linked herein.
Dorset Council are intending to procure repairs and maintenance services and shall appoint contractors for each Lot to deliver reactive and planned maintenance for M&E, Lifts, Asbestos, Mechanical Barriers, Voids, Fire (active & passive) and Building Fabric and associated services within the Dorset Council Region. All Lots will have one supplier per Lot save for M&E and Building Fabric who have two suppliers each, one supplier for West and one supplier for East This work will cover the following Dorset Council property portfolio types:
• Housing, including a mix of self-contained units and hostels, mostly used for temporary accommodation.
• Council Operational/Commercial Assets including operational buildings from which the council delivers a service (for example, libraries, family hubs, depots, residential children's and adults homes, day centres, offices etc) and commercial / community buildings which the council leases out and has some repairing obligations (for example farms, hotels and guesthouses,...