Cirrus Consortium Materials Supply Framework
- Buyer
- Cirrus Consortium c/o Coastline Housing Limited
- Value
- £1,200,000,000
- Closes
- 9 November 2026
- Where
- Redruth, the North East
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
The Cirrus Consortium, which includes housing associations, local authorities and NHS trusts, is setting up a 4-year framework to buy building and maintenance materials. They want to appoint multiple suppliers across seven categories: managed services, general building materials, plumbing and heating, electrical, highways, painting and decorating, and tool and plant hire. The framework starts January 2027.
What the buyer wants
• Provide a comprehensive range of building materials and associated services across one or more of the seven lots (managed services, general building materials, plumbing and heating materials, electrical materials, highways materials, painting and decorating supplies, or tool and plant hire) • For Lot 1 (Managed Services): act as a single supplier route, stock materials, potentially integrate with client IT systems, provide account management, and handle additional services like out-of-hours provision, training, and waste management • Meet minimum requirements such as proven experience delivering managed service contracts to contracting authorities (Lot 1 requires minimum 2 contracts in last 3 years)
Lots
- Managed services
- General building materials
- Plumbing and heating materials (including gas spares and renewable heating)
- Electrical materials (including solar PV and battery storage)
- Highways and civil materials
- Painting and decorating supplies
- Tool and plant hire
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
If you are bidding for Lot 1 (Managed Services), you must have delivered at least 2 managed service contracts to public sector bodies in the last 3 years, which will rule out most new or small traders without this specific experience. Additionally, you must be able to supply a comprehensive range of materials across multiple categories and handle complex ancillary services, which requires significant infrastructure and scale.
How to bid
This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.
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