Purpose

In 2016 the Housing Service procured Chubb Fire and Security Limited to provide Technology Enabled Care Services (installation, maintenance and repair) in our eight sheltered housing schemes. In 2024 the Chubb system was installed in a newly developed ninth sheltered housing scheme at Honeycroft in Lawford. The telecare service allows 24/7 communication from each property to the out of hours call centre (Amphora/ Helpline).
This decision extends the "Essential Plus" maintenance service by one year which includes access to Chubb's service centre to report faults and allows 24/7 contact with their engineers.
Included is an annual Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) visit to carry out a range of tests and checks to ensure that the system is fully operational and that the key system components are operating correctly and are in a serviceable condition.

Decision

To extend by one year the Chubb Community Care “Essential Plus” maintenance service for the existing Chubb equipment at nine sheltered housing schemes. For this one year agreement the contract rates will be charged between £680.80 and £1,719.64 per annum per scheme for the “Essential Plus” service level.

Alternative options considered

The contract proposed by Chubb Fire and Security Limited has taken into account the implications of LGR and it can be extended by mutual agreement until such time as the new authority takes over the statutory requirements of the services in question.