Contract Awards: 02/01/2026
Explore the latest UK social housing contract awards, featuring high‑value national maintenance, fire safety and decarbonisation frameworks, emergency waste diversion, estate refurbishments, retrofit design, temporary accommodation and compliance‑driven contracts across councils and housing providers.
Aberdeen City Council award SUEZ Recycling & Recovery UK a 2‑month, £4m emergency arrangement in Scotland to divert and dispose of residual waste after the unforeseen closure of the NESS EfW facility, using negotiation without prior publication due to extreme urgency under Reg 33(1)(c).
Supporting estate‑level public realm upkeep, Portsmouth City Council’s Planting and Grounds Maintenance Works appoints S. Faulkner on a 36‑month, £100k South East contract to deliver specialist‑plant grounds maintenance, sustaining landscape quality and amenity across council sites.
Driving office rationalisation and asset reconfiguration, Colchester Borough Homes’ St Edmunds House Office Move call‑off uses the Essex Construction Framework to engage Re‑Gen (UK) Construction on a 3‑month, £773.5k East Anglia project for full strip‑out, structural alterations and M&E/FF&E refurbishment of the first and second floors at St Edmunds House under a JCT Intermediate Building Contract with Contractor’s Design.
Focusing on estate safety and accessibility, two Housing 21 schemes commission Resurfacing, Footpaths, Rebuilding of Walls and Associated Works at Charles Jones Court with Mel Green Construction on a 2‑month, £124.97k programme in Yorkshire and the Humber, alongside Renewal of Carpark Tarmac and Pathways with Bound Resin at Colin Broughton Court through Johnson Surfacing on a 1‑month, £69.99k East Midlands contract, improving external hardstanding, pedestrian routes and resident experience.
Shaping low‑carbon heat and structural resilience, West Yorkshire Combined Authority appoints Buro Happold on the Leeds Area‑Based Scheme Detailed Design Study, a 3‑month, £97.98k commission to develop a techno‑economic Shared Ground Loop heat network design with robust cost and expansion modelling, while Portsmouth City Council lets a 12‑month, £51.67k Structural Investigations contract to Olton Structural Consulting for intrusive surveys at Scrutton Street, underpinning future refurbishment and safety decisions.
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