Contract award
Hospital roofing contract let at over 1.5 million pounds gross
By Staff Writer | 30-08-2026
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has let a roofing contract to Carmelcrest Limited at 1,271,661.25 pounds excluding value added tax, or 1,525,993.50 pounds including it. The contract details notice, identifier 082062-2026, was published on the United Kingdom tender service at 10:23 on 28 August 2026.
The notice is titled "The Hillingdon Hospital roof works" and describes the scope as roofing works at Mount Vernon Hospital. The contract itself is titled "THH Roof works". Both descriptions are reported here as the notice gives them; the notice does not reconcile them.
The contract was signed on 5 August 2026 and the recorded period ran from that date to 26 August 2026. Publication followed two days after the period closed.
Three weeks for 1.27 million pounds of roofing
A contract period of 5 August to 26 August is three weeks. Placing 1,271,661.25 pounds of roof work through a programme that short implies either substantial resource on site from day one or a scope let against an established rate framework where mobilisation had already been settled. The notice does not say which, and neither should be assumed.
What the notice does establish is that this was a below threshold procurement run as a limited competition under the Procurement Act 2023, with the tender reference C384270. Below threshold limited competition means the buyer approached a restricted field rather than advertising openly, which is available to it at this value but leaves the size of that field unstated.
Timely payment of sub-contractors as a recorded metric
The contract carries an agreed key performance indicator recorded on the notice as timely payment of sub-contractors. That is the single measure the buyer chose to publish against a roofing package, and it is a pointed one for a trade where the main contractor's cash position governs whether the specialist below it gets paid. On a three week programme the payment cycle to sub-contractors will almost certainly outlast the works themselves, so the metric will be measured after the scaffolding has gone.
Who procured it
The buyer is The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, whose address on the notice is Pield Heath Road, Uxbridge. The procuring entity is recorded separately as Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, described on the notice as the North West London Procurement Service. Shared procurement services of this kind now run a large share of NHS estates work in London, and the split matters to anyone tracing who holds the contract and who ran the competition: they are not the same body here.
Carmelcrest Limited is registered at company number 01731918, at an address in Bishop's Stortford, and is recorded on the notice as a small or medium sized enterprise. The requirement is classified as roof works and other special trade construction works. The award and the contract are both recorded as active.
For contractors watching NHS roofing spend in north west London, the number to hold on to is the gross figure of 1,525,993.50 pounds against a single below threshold package. That is a substantial roof let without an open advertisement, and the route through a shared procurement service is how it was done.