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Perth and Kinross signals 43 million pound buildings maintenance contract
By Staff Writer | 23 August 2026
Perth and Kinross Council has published a prior information notice for planned preventative and reactive maintenance to public buildings in its area, divided into thirteen lots and carrying a total of 43,348,500 pounds. The notice was published on 21 August 2026 at 3:36pm under the identifier 2026/S 000-080033.
The requirement carries the council reference PKC13040. The notice records that the council is seeking to appoint suitably qualified and experienced contractors to carry out planned preventative and reactive maintenance to public buildings in the council area, and that the contract will be split into thirteen lots. The main procurement category is works and the place of performance is recorded as public buildings within the Perth and Kinross Council area.
This is a prior information notice, which is to say advance warning rather than an invitation. There is no tender deadline on it, and a contractor reading it should treat the thirteen lot titles as the useful content and the timetable as still to come.
The thirteen lots are electrical systems, fixed wiring inspection and testing, fire and life safety systems, security and access systems, remote monitoring of alarm systems, L8 risk assessments, commercial catering and kitchen systems, water management and hygiene under L8, specialist systems and equipment through a facilities management provider, mechanical services covering heating, plumbing and ventilation, single ply roofing, drainage and environmental systems, and minor works and multi trade support.
What the practitioner should take from this
Cutting the work this finely does two things at once. It opens the contract to specialist firms that could never bid for a single combined maintenance package, which is the point of thirteen lots rather than one. It also leaves the council holding the interfaces between them, because a building with a fault that spans electrical systems, fire and life safety systems and remote alarm monitoring now involves three separate appointments rather than one.
Two lots address water in different ways, and the distinction is worth noting. Lot 6 covers L8 risk assessments and lot 8 covers water management and hygiene under L8. The assessment of legionella risk is separated from the management and hygiene work that follows from it, in the same way the asbestos market separates surveying from removal. The notice does not say whether a single supplier may hold both.
On the money, only one figure is published. The total is 43,348,500 pounds. The notice publishes no value against any individual lot, and the thirteen lots are not given a split. Any apportionment across the lots would be an invention, so none is offered here, and the card for this item carries the total alone.
The published detail on lot 1 gives an indication of how the scopes are drawn. It lists emergency lighting and central battery systems, generators, storage heaters, fixed appliance testing, induction loops, residual current device testing and visual inspection of electrical installations. That is a maintenance and testing scope rather than an installation one, which is consistent with the notice title and with the works category.
The notice does not name an estimated contract start, does not state the term, does not say how many suppliers are sought on each lot, and does not schedule the buildings covered. None of that is supplied here.