Contract award
Consortium reports 3.8 million pounds of housing works awards
By Staff Writer | 20 August 2026
Three contracts worth a combined 3,800,800 pounds have been reported under the All Under One Roof dynamic purchasing system run by Communities and Housing Investment Consortium Ltd. The quarterly award notice, published on 19 August 2026, covers awards made between 1 April 2026 and 30 June 2026 and records all three as signed on 30 June 2026.
The largest of the three is a renewal of windows and doors for Sandwell Council with an awarded value of 3,000,000 pounds, placed with Lutley Windows Ltd. The second is a roof replacement at Ivy Bridge Primary for the London Borough of Hounslow, valued at 650,000 pounds and placed with Cardo (South) Limited. The third is a commercial heating, air conditioning and solar photovoltaic maintenance services contract for Connexus Homes Limited, covering servicing and maintenance of commercial heating in Shropshire and Herefordshire, valued at 150,800 pounds.
The three published values reconcile exactly to the total recorded on the notice. Three million pounds, plus 650,000 pounds, plus 150,800 pounds, gives the 3,800,800 pounds stated for the quarter.
Nineteen tenders were received across the awards reported, of which sixteen came from small or medium sized enterprises, and all nineteen were submitted electronically. The award criteria for the lot are recorded as quality and cost. The purchasing system was established by restricted procedure and the classification applied is construction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual houses. The consortium is registered in Birmingham.
As with the consortium's other quarterly returns, the notice records that the value indicated is indicative only, because the notice reports awards made under a purchasing system over a quarter rather than a single competitively let contract. The supplier for the heating and photovoltaic maintenance contract is named in the notice, but the spelling of that company's name as published could not be reconciled against a registered company record, so it is left out here rather than reported wrongly.
What the practitioner should take from this
The most instructive line in this notice is the second award. A roof replacement at a primary school, procured by a London borough through a purchasing system whose classification is construction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual houses, is a reminder that the category description on a purchasing system is not a boundary on what can be bought through it. What binds is the scope defined when the system was established and advertised, not the single classification code that appears on a later notice. Anyone relying on a code to work out what an authority may lawfully call off from a given arrangement is reading the wrong document.
The second point concerns the spread of buyers. A council, a London borough and a registered provider have each used the same arrangement in a single quarter, for work in the West Midlands, west London, Shropshire and Herefordshire. Consortium purchasing systems are attractive to smaller and geographically dispersed landlords precisely because they remove the cost of running a separate competition for every package. The trade off is that the terms are set by the arrangement rather than by the individual buyer, so the contract particulars, the payment mechanism and the defects provisions are inherited. Where a landlord has a specific requirement, the point to check is whether the call off documents permit it to be added.
The third point is the composition of the bidders. Sixteen of the nineteen tenders came from small or medium sized enterprises. On packages of this size, between 150,000 pounds and three million pounds, that is the market one would expect, and it carries the usual consequences for anyone advising the buyer: covenant strength, the availability and level of professional indemnity and product warranty cover, and whether performance security has been taken. None of those matters is addressed in the notice.
The fourth point is the same timing observation that applies to any quarterly return. All three contracts were signed on 30 June 2026 and reported on 19 August 2026. A quarterly reporting cycle means the public record of a call off can trail the award by several weeks, so a search of the transparency data at any given moment will understate what has actually been placed.
No contract periods, start dates or programme details are published in the notice, and none is stated here.