The national deals are designed to support housing associations and local authorities with a wide range of reactive maintenance works.

The Reactive Repairs & Maintenance Framework is set to provide a comprehensive service for all general building trades and includes: out-of-hours reactive emergency repairs; void property repairs and major improvements.

The Empty Property Refurbishment & Security Framework will provide repairs, improvements and security measures to empty properties covering all building trades.

Peter Francis, Director of Operations at Fusion21 said: “Recent figures have highlighted housing associations spend around £3.2 billion a year on repairs and maintenance – this is a huge area of spend which requires the availability of efficient and quality performing services based on business need.

“Having listened to the views and experiences of Fusion21 members we have developed a framework which addresses a current gap in the market, enhances our planned maintenance offer, and will also provide housing providers with an opportunity to integrate both responsive and planned work programmes into one package when required.

“Set for launch in October 2018, Fusion21 members accessing these frameworks will benefit from greater cost efficiencies in addition to being able to call off separate lots for contract spend below and over £1million per year.”

Applications are welcome from interested organisations that meet the criteria set out in the tender documentation now available on the mytenders portal.

Suppliers interested in the Reactive Repairs & Maintenance Framework should search under Notice ID JUN154790, whilst the Empty Building Framework is listed under Notice ID JUN154791.

The submission deadline for the both frameworks is Friday August 3 2018 at 12 noon.

For further details suppliers should contact Nick Verburg, Procurement & Supply Chain Manager at [email protected].