Flintshire Council set to open £4m construction contract bid

A contract to carry out approved works for Flintshire County Council worth around £4 million may soon be up for grabs.

The authority’s cabinet will decide tomorrow (Tuesday) whether to open the tender for construction firms to bid for its four-year Measured Term Contract (MTC).

Securing the MTC means a firm is pre-approved to carry out specified work for the council – in this case any upgrades to council buildings, schools or corporate properties owned by the authority to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act or Equalities Act,  fire safety regulations and school improvements.

It will cover projects like installing disabled ramps and access support and will run until 2029.

Issued by the North Wales Construction Framework, the MTC covers minor works – not new school builds or major extensions – and is worth approximately £1m per year. The majority of construction firms eligible via the framework are based in North Wales.

If Flintshire does not appoint an approved contractor for the MTC, every individual building upgrade job the authority carries out would need to go through a full tender process.

That would cause delays and hinder strategic works planning – such as scheduling disruptive works at schools for the summer holidays – and the spending of associated grants within the strict timetables set by funding bodies.

This will be the seventh time the MTC has peen put out to tender since 2010.

In that time it has delivered 235 projects with a procurement value of £18.3m.

By Alec Doyle – Local Democracy Reporter