Contract Awards: 12/12/2025
Explore the latest UK social housing contract awards, highlighting major national frameworks for decoration, lifts and contractors alongside energy‑efficiency retrofit, compliance and support services, with strong activity across development, damp and mould, scaffolding, demolition and specialist consultancy awards.
Leading the day, the Decoration Works Framework 2025 – 2029 from CHIC Limited establishes a £100.42m, 48‑month UK‑wide framework with multiple contractors including Bell Group, Ian Williams, Novus Property Solutions, Mitie Property Services (UK) and others to deliver cyclical decoration works, responsive repairs, voids, new build and regeneration decorations across domestic, communal, specialist and commercial stock.
Strengthening building envelopes, Window Renewal including External & Internal Decorations at Stockhurst Close sees Wandsworth London Borough appoint Hilton Abbey on an £816k, 5‑month project for window renewals and associated internal and external redecoration.
Transforming access assets, CHIC Limited’s Lifts & Mobility Aids Framework 2025 – 2029 launches a £416.67m, 48‑month national framework with providers such as Concept Elevators (UK), Lift and Engineering Services, Pickerings Europe and Stannah Lift Services to install, modernise, service and maintain passenger lifts, goods lifts and mobility aids including stairlifts and through‑floor lifts.
Targeting damp and mould, Torus’ Awaabs Law – Severe Case Response with Dry Fogging contracts Mould Specialists UK on a £45k, 12‑month severe‑case response service to support Awaab’s Law compliance.
Powering development delivery, Torus’ Contractors Framework – Lots 2 and Contractors Framework – Lot 3 each create £233.33m, 48‑month North West development frameworks with contractors such as Watson Construction, Frank Rogers Building Contractor, Eric Wright Construction and Countryside Properties (UK), supporting 9,000 new homes by 2029 and wider retrofit and social value programmes.
Ensuring safe access, St. Leger Homes of Doncaster Ltd’s Provision of Scaffolding Services SLHD appoints Direct Scaffolding Services on a £4m, 24‑month contract for scaffolding to support repairs, maintenance and capital works across its portfolio, while Sheffield City Council’s Demolition Contract – Emergency and Planned Works (26-30) lets PPS Metal Recycling a £3.51m, 12‑month emergency and planned demolition term contract with 24/7 response and call‑off capability.
Rounding out today’s core awards, Cheshire West and Chester Council’s The Nook Refurbishment appoints MPH Construction on a £55k, 2‑month refurbishment in Chester, GreenSquareAccord’s Organisational Design Consultancy contracts CBRE on a £92k, 12‑month organisational redesign commission, and Rutland County Council’s Provision of the Local Area Energy Plan secures Energy Systems Catapult on an £90k, 22‑month strategic net‑zero energy planning brief.
Hounslow London Borough has appointed Kendall Kingscott on a 36‑month, £78.054k architectural services commission in Greater London to design the Burlington House Children’s Home, including RIBA Stage 3 planning submission and coordination of supporting surveys.
Westminster London Borough has let a £75k structural survey and monitoring call‑off to The Project Centre in Greater London to assess and monitor WCC assets affected by movement and drying of sub‑soil.
Westminster London Borough has awarded Archio a 9‑month, £69.5k Healthy Homes design consultancy in Greater London to develop archetype‑specific retrofit Healthy Homes Plan guidance for Queens Park Estate homes, covering performance diagnostics, resident needs, upgrade options and delivery‑focused retrofit packages.
Torus has appointed Curtins Consulting on a 4‑month, £43k RAAC Housing Stock Survey & Desktop Review (Phase 3) in the North West to assess reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete risks across its housing portfolio.
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