Materials Framework
- Buyer
- ORBIT GROUP LIMITED
- Value
- £85,700,000
- Closes
- 2 November 2026
- Where
- Coventry, the North East
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
Orbit Group (a housing association) is setting up a 4-year materials supply framework worth £85.7 million. They want to buy building materials like bricks, blocks, timber, doors, steel, cladding, plant hire and fuel across 30 regional lots, split between the Midlands and East of England.
What the buyer wants
• Supply or manufacture building materials and products to their exact technical specifications, drawings and performance standards (U-values, fire ratings, thermal performance) • Deliver materials on time and in line with their construction and regeneration project programmes • Design and manufacture bespoke items like cladding, stone cills, staircases and joists where specified • Hire out small plant, forklifts and telehandlers as needed for their building sites
Lots
- Midlands - Facing Bricks, Brick Arches and Brick Specials
- Midlands - Thermal and Concrete Blocks
- Midlands - Joists - design, manufacture, supply and delivery
- Midlands - Thermally Broken Lintels and Steel
- Midlands - Soffit, Fascia, GRP and Cladding, design, manufacture, supply and delivery
- Midlands - Stone Cills manufacture, supply and delivery
- Midlands - Internal Doors and Linings
- Midlands - First and Second Fix Timbers
- Midlands - Ironmongery
- Midlands - Staircases
- Midlands - Garage Doors
- Midlands - Small Plant Hire
- Midlands - Forklift and Telehandler Hire
- Midlands - Fuel, construction use only
- East - Facing Bricks, Brick Arches and Brick Specials
- East - Thermal and Concrete Blocks
- East - Joists - design, manufacture, supply and delivery
- East - Thermally Broken Lintels and Steel
- East - Soffit, Fascia, GRP and Cladding, design, manufacture, supply and delivery
- East - Stone Cils manufacture, supply and delivery
- East - Internal Doors and Linings
- East - First and Second Fix Timbers
- East - Ironmongery
- East - Staircases
- East - Garage Doors
- East - Small Plant Hire
- East - Forklift and Telehandler Hire
- East - Fuel, construction use only
- Trusses - design, manufacture, supply and delivery
- East - Trusses
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
This is a framework for established material suppliers and plant hire companies with the capacity to deliver across entire regions: a one-person tradesperson or very small business without stock, manufacturing capability, or regional distribution networks will struggle, particularly for lots requiring design and manufacture or plant hire operations.
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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