Contract award

Together Housing lets 13.44 million pounds of fire safety contracts

By Staff Writer  |  08-09-2026

Together Housing Group has published two contract award notices for fire safety works across its stock in the North West, Yorkshire and the Humber and the East Midlands. Ashley and McDonough Limited takes a passive fire and compartmentation contract at 7,440,000 pounds, and GTM Fire Protection Limited takes an active fire sprinkler contract at 6,000,000 pounds. Both were let as call-offs from the same framework and both started on 1 September 2026.

The passive fire contract

The first notice, published on 8 September 2026, records the award of the Passive Fire and Compartmentalisation Contract to Ashley and McDonough Limited, Companies House number 05426731, of Margaret Street, London, recorded as a small or medium-sized enterprise. The award value is 7,440,000 pounds. The award date on the record is 21 August 2026 and the contract period runs from 1 September 2026 to 31 August 2030.

The landlord says it has awarded the contract by call-off from Lot 22 of the Efficiency North Installation, Servicing, Repairs and Maintenance Framework, reference 2024/S 000-033141. The scope is the survey, supply, installation and certification of fire door sets; the supply of fire doors for installation by the landlord's own internal fire joinery team; fire door repairs and refurbishment; compartmentation remediation works identified through fire risk assessments; and the associated certification and compliance activities. The notice says the requirement supports the 2026/27 planned fire door replacement programme together with reactive and remedial passive fire works across the landlord's stock.

The notice carries two different date ranges in its own text. Its title reads 2026 to 2028 with an extension to 2030, while its description reads 2026 to 2029 with an extension to 2030. The contract period recorded in the structured data is 1 September 2026 to 31 August 2030. The notice does not say which of the two is the initial term and which the extended term, and this desk reports the record as it stands.

The sprinkler contract

The second notice, also published on 8 September 2026, records the award of the Active Fire Sprinkler Design, Supply and Installation Contract to GTM Fire Protection Limited, Companies House number 08282027, of Lancashire Enterprise Business Park, Leyland, also recorded as a small or medium-sized enterprise. The award value is 6,000,000 pounds. The award date on the record is 28 August 2026 and the contract period runs from 1 September 2026 to 31 August 2031, a year longer than the passive fire contract. The title describes it as a 2026 to 2029 contract with an extension to 2031.

This contract was let by call-off from Lot 24 of the same Efficiency North framework. The scope is the design of compliant fire sprinkler systems; the supply of all materials and components; the installation of new systems; the retrofitting of sprinkler systems where required; and testing, commissioning, certification and handover documentation. The notice states that all works must be undertaken in accordance with applicable legislation, standards and client requirements.

Taken together, the two awards carry values that add to 13,440,000 pounds. Both notices record the procurement method as a selective call-off from a framework agreement, and both give the delivery regions as the North West, Yorkshire and the Humber and the East Midlands. Neither notice states the number of properties or fire doors in scope, gives a value for any single year, or names the sites where sprinkler retrofits are required.

What the record does not say

Names on the record. The contracting authority is recorded as Together Housing Group Limited, while the description of each notice refers to Together Housing Association Limited as the body that has appointed or awarded the contract. Both names appear on the published records and this desk does not know which entity is the contracting party under the executed contracts.

What is not published. Neither notice states how many bids were received, whether any other framework supplier was invited to compete for the call-off, or how the award values were arrived at. No annual figure appears on either record and neither says whether the values are ceilings or committed sums. Nothing on either point should be inferred. The two awards were published on a public notice portal on the same morning, seventeen minutes apart, and the article is built from those two records alone.