Four Year Framework Agreement for Main Building Contractors for New Build Housing with a possible one year extension
- Buyer
- Link Group
- Value
- £840,000,000
- Closes
- 2 November 2026
- Where
- Falkirk, Scotland
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
Link Group is looking for building contractors to join a four-year framework agreement to deliver new build housing construction across Scotland, mainly in the Central Belt, Argyll and Bute, and Highland regions. Work will be called off as individual projects arise, with no guaranteed volume, and may also include rehabilitation, commercial work, extensions, and maintenance projects.
What the buyer wants
• Provide construction services for new build housing projects ranging from 5 to 500 units, including flats, houses, and retirement living • Deliver projects across various tenure types (affordable, private rented, market sale) with experience in the social housing sector • Execute a mix of project types including rehabilitation of existing properties, office and commercial properties, extensions, community facilities, adaptations, and planned maintenance • Work across Scotland with projects mainly in Central Belt, Argyll and Bute, and Highland regions
Lots
- Very Low Value Contracts up to the value of 3,000,000 GBP
- Low Value Contracts between the value of 3,000,001 - 6,500,000 GBP
- Medium value contracts with an estimated value of between 6,500,001 and 12,500,000 GBP
- Medium/High value contracts with an estimated value of between 12,500,001 and 20,000,000 GBP
- High value contracts with an estimated value between 20,000,001 and 40,000,000 GBP
- – Very High value contracts with an estimated value over 40,000,001 GBP
- Argyll and Bute and Highland contracts with values up to 40,000,000 GBP.
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
This is a very large framework worth up to £840 million with highly competitive selection; most small independent builders will be outbid by national and regional contractors. You must demonstrate experience of delivering multiple projects of 5-500 units in the social housing sector, which rules out most trades-only or single-project-experience businesses.
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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