Contract Awards: 03/12/2025
Explore the latest UK social housing contract awards, highlighting a strong focus on independent living adaptations, large-scale electrical improvements, domestic abuse target-hardening, extensive damp and mould remediation frameworks, new-build homes at Hutton Bank, significant estate refurbishments, fencing and blacksmith term works, and asbestos removal across multiple regions.
Advancing independent living, Erewash Borough Council has appointed Norse Eastern (n-able) on a £965.8k, 36‑month To Design and Deliver Adaptations that are Provided Through Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) contract, covering design and delivery of DFG-funded home adaptations to support disabled residents across the borough.
Stevenage Borough Council has let a £60k, 24‑month Retail Decorative Solutions – Lot 1 call‑off to PPG Architectural Coatings UK to provide redeemable decorative products via multiple platforms for tenants. Rykneld Homes has selected Concorde BGW on a £4.0m, 36‑month Provision of Electrical Installation, Rewires, Repairs and Improvements contract delivering comprehensive electrical upgrades and repairs to its stock.
Strengthening safety and resilience, Wirral Council has awarded 24‑7 Locks Secure Horizon a £250.75k, 3‑month Target Hardening contract to deliver home security assessments and security measures for households experiencing domestic abuse. Oxford Direct Services Ltd, on behalf of Oxford City Council, has appointed C.E.F Construction Group to a £750k, 6‑month Damp & Mould Rectification Works programme across around 8,000 homes, combining responsive and planned works aligned with Awaab’s Law timescales.
Tackling damp at scale, Karbon Homes has established a 24‑month Framework Damp and Mould arrangement valued at £1.06m, bringing in Allerton Damp‑Proofing, Buston & Maughan, Sendrig Construction and Quality Services Today to deliver sectioned damp‑proofing works across multiple geographic areas (lots A–D and B+) within the Karbon/54N area, covering occupied and void properties.
North Yorkshire Council has complemented this approach with two EEM DPS call‑offs to Allerton Damp Proofing: a £600k, 12‑month Damp, Mould & Timber Treatment Services, Surveys & Repair Works – Lot 2 contract and a £350k, 12‑month Lot 1 contract, together providing surveys, damp‑proofing, plastering, timber treatment, mould cleaning and reactive cleaning across around 2,800 council homes, with strict Awaab’s Law‑compliant response times.
Driving growth in affordable housing, Yorkshire Housing Limited has chosen Jack Lunn for the Design, Construction & Handover of 37 nr New Build Dwellings at Hutton Bank – 0004063, an £8.0m call‑off via Procurement Hub’s Development Contractor DPS to deliver complete design-and-build of new homes in Yorkshire and the Humber. Bath and North East Somerset Council has awarded Beard a £1.37m, 21‑month Refurbishment Works Parkside contract, upgrading council assets within the South West.
Supporting estate infrastructure, East Renfrewshire Council has let an £800k, 24‑month Measured Term Contract Fencing and Blacksmith Works 2025–2027 to Inverweld, covering a wide range of blacksmithing, metal fencing, gates, handrails, weldmesh, cast iron repairs and timber fencing to non‑housing properties and land across the authority.
Finally, Citizen has appointed Duct Clean (UK) on a £700k, 24‑month Asbestos Removal Services call‑off to deliver asbestos removal across its West Midlands and South West portfolio, supporting compliance and safe remediation.
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