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Eight bid for £200m ALMO work
13:06 19 Mar 2003
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Eight firms are fighting it out for a £200m council house
renovation deal in Hounslow, West London, while 10 contractors have
been selected to carry out a similar project worth up to £140m
in Wigan. Both are being carried out by arm's length management
organisations (ALMOs).
Hounslow Homes, the London Borough of Hounslow's ALMO, is handling the project, which involves upgrading 10,000 out of 16,000 local authority homes.
The line-up is: United House, Connaught, Balfour Beatty, Lovell, Mansell, Apollo (London) Bowater and Astraseal.
The scope of work includes general structural repairs, doors and windows, and kitchens and bathrooms.
By the end of the month, Hounslow Homes will recommend a total of four contractors to carry out the projects.
A start on site will begin in May and span nine years, although most of the work will be carried out in the first three years of the deals.
In Lancashire, 10 contractors have the key to around £140m worth of housing renovation work for Wigan Borough Council.
The work is being let through the council's ALMO called Wigan and Leigh Housing Company, now that the government has rubber-stamped Wigan Council's application for extra funds under ALMO rules.
The work entails upgrading the council's entire stock of 25,000 houses over the next five years.
Work on kitchens will be shared among Wates, Bullock Construction and Mears.
Jackson Lloyd, Baas, Seddons and Durose & Gourlay will tackle planned maintenance.
Enterprise and Durose & Gourlay will share roofing tasks.
Seddons, HT Forrest, Casey and Jackson Lloyd will undertake environmental work.
Wigan was one of eight councils given the go-ahead to set up an ALMO in the first round of bidding announced late in 2001.
The rules stipulate that a council transfers management of its housing stock to a company that it owns.
The company then carries out major improvement and maintenance work.
Councils are then allowed to apply for extra funds outside of normal allocations, provided the ALMOs can show the new arrangements can deliver high-quality services to tenants.
Hounslow Homes, the London Borough of Hounslow's ALMO, is handling the project, which involves upgrading 10,000 out of 16,000 local authority homes.
The line-up is: United House, Connaught, Balfour Beatty, Lovell, Mansell, Apollo (London) Bowater and Astraseal.
The scope of work includes general structural repairs, doors and windows, and kitchens and bathrooms.
By the end of the month, Hounslow Homes will recommend a total of four contractors to carry out the projects.
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A start on site will begin in May and span nine years, although most of the work will be carried out in the first three years of the deals.
In Lancashire, 10 contractors have the key to around £140m worth of housing renovation work for Wigan Borough Council.
The work is being let through the council's ALMO called Wigan and Leigh Housing Company, now that the government has rubber-stamped Wigan Council's application for extra funds under ALMO rules.
The work entails upgrading the council's entire stock of 25,000 houses over the next five years.
Work on kitchens will be shared among Wates, Bullock Construction and Mears.
Jackson Lloyd, Baas, Seddons and Durose & Gourlay will tackle planned maintenance.
Enterprise and Durose & Gourlay will share roofing tasks.
Seddons, HT Forrest, Casey and Jackson Lloyd will undertake environmental work.
Wigan was one of eight councils given the go-ahead to set up an ALMO in the first round of bidding announced late in 2001.
The rules stipulate that a council transfers management of its housing stock to a company that it owns.
The company then carries out major improvement and maintenance work.
Councils are then allowed to apply for extra funds outside of normal allocations, provided the ALMOs can show the new arrangements can deliver high-quality services to tenants.
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