Contract award
Bangor University lets an 18 million pound works framework in three lots
By Staff Writer | 02-09-2026
Bangor University has awarded a four year works framework for schemes valued between 100,000 pounds and 1,000,000 pounds, in three lots of 6,000,000 pounds each excluding value added tax. Seven contractors take nine places across electrical, mechanical, and buildings and grounds. The award notice was published at 14:43 on 1 September 2026.
Each lot carries a gross figure of 7,200,000 pounds, exactly 1.2 times the net, so the notice carries value added tax at 20 per cent and nothing else. All three lots were awarded on 6 August 2026 by open procedure under a framework agreement, all three are recorded as works and as above threshold, and the standstill period on all three ends on 10 September 2026.
A banded framework: it only reaches schemes above 100,000 pounds and below one million, so the small jobs and the large projects both fall outside it.
The three lots
Lot 1, electrical, goes to Kimpton Ltd, Owen and Palmer Ltd, KHS Mechanical Ltd and Jackwolf Group Ltd. Lot 2, mechanical, goes to Kimpton Ltd, KHS Mechanical Ltd, Jackwolf Group Ltd and Domino Mechanical and Electrical Ltd. Lot 3, buildings and grounds, goes to ML Hughes Construction Ltd, Owen and Palmer Ltd, Kimpton Ltd and MPH Construction Ltd.
Seven firms hold twelve places between them. Kimpton appears on all three lots. KHS Mechanical and Jackwolf appear on both the electrical and the mechanical lots. Owen and Palmer appears on the electrical lot and on buildings and grounds. All seven are recorded on the notice as small or medium sized enterprises. Two, Owen and Palmer and ML Hughes Construction, are addressed in Bangor itself; the others are at Bromborough, Abergele, Sheffield, Walsall and Mold.
The classifications are electrical installation work for lot 1, mechanical installations for lot 2 and building installation work for lot 3. Delivery is recorded against three Welsh regions, so the framework is not confined to the Bangor site.
Term and call off
The contract period on all three lots runs from 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2030, which is four years with no extension recorded on the notice. The notice records that call off contracts will be let under the framework, and the option wording on lots 1 and 3 says as much in terms.
The band is the distinguishing feature. The framework title states its own limits: works valued between 100,000 pounds and one million pounds excluding value added tax. That is an unusually explicit floor. It means routine reactive maintenance below the floor has to be bought some other way, and it means a single scheme above the ceiling has to be tendered separately rather than called off. A contractor pricing a place on this framework is pricing a defined middle band of work, not the university's whole estate spend.
What is not on the notice
The notice publishes no call off mechanism beyond the fact that call offs will be used, no ranking, no rotation rule and no direct award threshold. It publishes no count of tenderers on any lot, no award criteria weightings and no runner up. It publishes no minimum guaranteed volume, so the 6,000,000 pounds against each lot is a ceiling for the lot rather than a commitment to any firm on it.
The overlap between lots is the practical point for the firms named. A contractor sitting on both the electrical and the mechanical lot can be reached for a combined services package; one sitting on a single lot cannot. Where a call off crosses two lots, which lot governs the rates and the terms is settled by the framework documents, and those are not published with the notice.