Contract award
Peterborough opens a 22 million pound adaptations framework to newcomers
By Staff Writer | 02-09-2026
Peterborough City Council has awarded its Care and Repair Open Framework at 22,000,000 pounds excluding value added tax to fourteen contractors, for adaptations to domestic properties. The award was made on 25 August 2026 and the notice was published at 17:29 on 1 September 2026. Because it is an open framework, further firms can join later.
The gross figure on the notice is 26,400,000 pounds, exactly 1.2 times the net, so the notice carries value added tax at 20 per cent and nothing else. The award is recorded as works, as above threshold, and as let by open procedure. The standstill period ends on 10 September 2026.
Two years from 2 November 2026, renewable to a maximum extent of 2 November 2034, with no cap on the number of firms who may eventually hold a place.
The scope
The council's own description records the framework as covering adaptations including extensions, internal alterations, level access showering facilities and associated works in domestic properties, together with the installation of minor aids and adaptations. The stated aim is to help elderly, vulnerable and disabled residents, adults and children, to live independently and to be warm and safe. The work is to be carried out alongside the council's own Home Service Delivery Care and Repair team.
The council records that the work will predominantly fall within the Peterborough unitary authority area, with some in the surrounding areas. It states that it wants responsive, locally based contractors, high quality work with minimum disruption, prompt commencement after an order and prompt completion, and it records that the work will be in occupied properties.
The classifications on the notice are construction work and repair and maintenance services. Delivery is recorded against Peterborough. The notice records a schedule of rates as part of the arrangement.
Who is on it
Fourteen firms take places: Allworks Home Improvements Ltd, Ashco Building and Maintenance Services Limited, Aspire Adaptations Ltd, BSG Property Services Limited, Casbon Building Services Limited, Eric Group Ltd, Foster Building Services Limited, Lindum Group Limited, Morley Building Services Ltd, Northdown Property Services (NPS) Ltd, Princebuild Limited, Rawheat Limited, T. M. Browne Limited and Westone Housing Limited.
Twelve are recorded as small or medium sized enterprises and two as large. Six are addressed in Peterborough itself. The others are at Ely, Everton Sandy, Luton, Lincoln, Wisbech and King's Lynn. That distribution matches the council's stated aim of using locally based firms for responsiveness.
What an open framework changes
The renewal wording on the notice is the part worth reading. It records that there is no limit to the number of providers who may be awarded a place on the open framework. An open framework under the Procurement Act 2023 reopens at intervals, so a firm that missed this round is not shut out for the whole term, and a firm that is on it now can find itself competing against a wider list at the next reopening.
For a contractor, that alters the value of a place. A place on a closed framework is a share of a defined pool for a fixed period. A place on an open framework is a licence to be asked, held alongside an unknown number of others who may be admitted later. Where the work is ordered against a schedule of rates rather than tendered scheme by scheme, the protection against that dilution lies in the rates and in the call off rules, not in the number of firms named today.
The period runs from 2 November 2026 to 2 November 2028, with a maximum extent date of 2 November 2034. That is a two year term inside an eight year outer limit. The notice publishes no count of tenderers, no award criteria weightings, no rotation or ranking rule and no minimum guaranteed volume, and none is assumed here.