Issue - meetings

Officers requested Cabinet to agree to the letting of the contract for space heating and hot water servicing and repairs. The estimated value of this contract was £5.78 million over a potential duration of 7 years. Gas Call Ltd currently provided this service and their contract was due to expire on 31 March 2023. The current contract covered gas boiler breakdown and responsive repairs, annual gas safety checks, call centre, out of hours service provision and a boiler replacement programme. The new contract is proposed to include the majority of existing services.

However, it was proposed that the new contract does not include an active boiler replacement programme and boilers be replaced at point of failure only. This was in preparation for the phasing out of gas boilers as part of the national approach to carbon reduction, and the council’s Net Zero Strategy. Gas boilers installed now had a 15 year lifecycle. It was not advisable to install equipment now that could potentially be replaced in the near future with new, emerging green technologies.

Councillor Everitt spoke under Council Procedure Rule 20.1.

Councillor Jill Bayford proposed, Councillor Saunders seconded and Cabinet agreed to:

1.  The letting of the contract for space heating servicing, health and safety inspections, maintenance and installation works for HRA housing stock.