Herefordshire Council Publish Decision To Award £130k Contract For Governor's House Repairs To Local Builders

[Hereford Voice]

The decision was made in March 2022 and was published by Herefordshire Council yesterday. 

The £130,000 contract was awarded to local builders S C Joseph Ltd.

Decision Title

Award a contract to carry out building improvements including window frame repairs, localised rainwater good repairs and works to the external canopy at Governor’s House, Hereford, up to a value of £130,000

Decision Made

This decision is to award the contract to S C Joseph to carry out these works to the Governor’s House, Hereford, following the completion of a successful tender, evaluation and moderation process.

Works to include carrying out building improvements including window frame repairs, localised rainwater good repairs and works to the external canopy

To approve the works expenditure of up to £130,000 which includes £9,400.75 contingency and £14,101.13 for professional fees.

Responsibility for delivering works to be carried out by the Capital Senior Project Manager within the spend budget of the Capital Building Improvement Programme

Reason For Decision

These works are part of the Capital Building Improvement Programme 2022/25.

The required improvement works have been assessed and prioritised based upon select criteria which covers health & safely, operational need/impact and lifecycle/value

Full details HERE

[twowheelsgood]

This was budgeted at £55k in the linked report, so more than twice over budget before it's even started ... how do Property Services get it so wrong? Was this an open tender, or is there only one local builder?

[Cambo]

1 hour ago, twowheelsgood said:

This was budgeted at £55k in the linked report, so more than twice over budget before it's even started ... how do Property Services get it so wrong? Was this an open tender, or is there only one local builder?

Usually if the works are below £250k the tender process is done by the council’s service provider which if I’m not mistaken is Balfour Beatty? But it says above that the responsibility delivering works to be carried out is by the Capital Senior Project Manager within the spend budget of the Capital Building Improvement Programme is this a new job title which has been created or has it existed for some while?

 

regarding the contract it seems the decision was made in March 2022 over a year ago? Could this be why the cost has gone up due to increased material costs etc?

in regards to who the contractors are are we really surprised they seem to win a lot of tenders for council works maybe they know something we don’t in regards to winning these tenders?

[ragwert]

On 27/05/2023 at 19:26, twowheelsgood said:

This was budgeted at £55k in the linked report, so more than twice over budget before it's even started ... how do Property Services get it so wrong? Was this an open tender, or is there only one local builder?

Firms like these see pound signs in their eyes when guestimating how much to charge. 130k is a joke