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13
Oct
£5.7m police and fire maintenance contract awarded to West Midlands company
A £5.7 million contract for the maintenance of police and fire buildings in North Yorkshire has been awarded to an West Midlands company.
Jo Coles, Labour deputy mayor for policing and fire in York and North Yorkshire, approved the award of the contract to Dodd Group (Midlands) Limited, which is based in Telford.
According to a decision notice published on the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority website, the award was the result of a “comprehensive and collaborative procurement process”.
The contract, which is a four-year agreement with the option of a one-year extension, will see existing maintenance for North Yorkshire Police and North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue awarded to one supplier.
Jo Coles, deputy mayor for police, fire and crime.
According to the notice, the service will include planned and reactive maintenance as well as reduced response time for repairs.
It adds:
The new contract will consolidate multiple existing contracts into a single, streamlined agreement, significantly improving operational efficiency and service delivery.
It will introduce a unified standard of maintenance across both services, reduce response times for urgent repairs from eight hours to two, and ensure robust compliance with statutory maintenance and safety requirements.
However, the contract will also come with increased costs for both the police and fire service.
According to the notice, the decision is forecast to cost the police force £154,000 more per year than the current budget, with a further one-off cost of £69,000 in the first year.
Meanwhile, it is forecast to cost the fire service £290,000 per year more than the current budget and includes a one-off cost in the first year of £75,000.
The notice added:
There is however the potential to explore value engineering options within the contract to achieve cost savings and this will be undertaken post contract award.
Both services are aware of the requirement to absorb these additional costs within their overall budget allocations and are working to ensure this is the case.
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