Purpose

The current contract with Gasway Services Limited (originally two contracts - one with Blueflame and one with Gasway - until the latter company took over the former company) expires at the end of June 2025 having been extended since its original end date in 2021.
A full procurement exercise was commenced but was not completed. Together with our colleagues in the County Council’s procurement team TDC has entered into an access agreement with Eastern Procurement Limited, a framework provider based in the Eastern region founded by and specialising in services for social landlords. Working with Essex Procurement Partnership and with Eastern Procurement Limited we have identified a fully compliant and competitively tendered framework from which we can directly appoint a new contractor.

Decision

To enter into a five year (3 year initial term with the option to extend for a further 2 years) contract with Gasway Services Limited through the framework provided by Eastern Procurement Limited for gas testing, servicing ad repairs, and other related heating work.

Alternative options considered

Option 1 - Using The Framework to appoint a contractor - proposed - the framework is tendered by sector experts and provides efficiency by economy pf scale, processes completed by others and administration support through the framework.
Option 2 - Not appointing a contractor - not proposed - the work is essential and legally required.
Option 3 - Increasing the scope of the in-house team - not proposed - the work is of a specialist nature requiring gas safe accreditation which the team does not hold.