The remediation framework will support both planned and reactive interventions in both residential and mixed-use developments
ProcurePublic will manage the framework and will run for four years, starting on 15 September 2025 and ending 14 September 2029.
Those seeking tender will have to have bid by 12 August, after an enquiry deadline of 5 August.
ProcurePublic encourages SMEs, regional contractors, tier 1 contractors, and specialist providers who are committed to delivering quality, safety, and compliance.
The remediation framework is open to all competent contractors
Tenderers will need to be able to demonstrate experience in building remediation, and can apply for one or more workstream, including CPV, Region, and Contract Value.
Scope of the remediation framework include:
- Fire Safety and Prevention Works
- Removal and replacement of unsafe cladding systems
- Fire stopping and compartmentation
- Installation of fire doors and associated joinery
- Fire detection and suppression systems
- Structural Remediation
- Concrete and steel frame repairs
- Structural strengthening and stabilisation
- Foundation improvements
- Envelope and External Works
- Façade replacement and repairs
- Roof and balcony refurbishment
- Window and door replacements
- Internal Building Safety Works
- Lift upgrades
- Ventilation and smoke extraction improvements
- M&E systems upgrade as part of compliance works
- Compliance and Specialist Surveys
- Fire risk assessments
- Intrusive investigations removal and management
Remediation works are more important than ever
In the wake of the final Grenfell Inquiry report, cladding remediation is especially important to prevent another disaster like Grenfell or Dagenham.
The government has recently updated their Cladding Remediation Acceleration Plan, with the following highlighting how they will work towards the three goals of the plan as originally published in December last year:
Fix buildings faster
- Give social landlords equal access to government remediation funding as private landlords, supported by a new joint plan between government, social landlords and regulators to speed up remediation, cutting years off the time to make social tenants safe and improving resident experience before, during and after remedial works.
- Bring forward a Remediation Bill to create a hard ‘endpoint’ for remediation. A Legal Duty to Remediate will compel landlords to remediate their buildings within fixed timescales or face criminal prosecution. Avoidance is not an option. Where landlords fail, new powers – including a Remediation Backstop – will ensure the work gets done. The Bill will be brought forward as soon as parliamentary time allows.
- Tighten fire assessment standards to minimise delays to remediation start dates and provide certainty on the scope of works.
- Support the delivery of Local Remediation Acceleration Plans (LRAPs) to enhance collaborative working and expertise at regional levels, further to the over £5 million in funding already provided to metro mayors.
- Establish a National Remediation System (NRS) to serve as the single source of data for all relevant buildings over 11 metres to enhance information sharing across partner organisations.
Find 11m+ residential buildings in need of cladding remediation:
- Reviewed over 212,000 Ordnance Survey records and, as part of a separate exercise, published updated prevalence information based on the latest available data, which reduces the estimated number of buildings requiring remediation that have not yet been brought into a remediation programme from 4,000 – 7,000 to 500 – 3,40,0 with 60% – 91% having already been identified.
- Advanced work to review further Ordnance Survey records and remain on track to identify the vast majority of relevant 11m+ buildings with potentially unsafe cladding by the end of the year.
- Identified buildings where further investigation is required and began engagement with responsible parties to review their fire risk assessments and either provide support to help them enter a programme or rule them out.
Support residents:
- Provide funding, on a strictly exceptional basis, to multi-occupied residential buildings under 11 metres where it is needed to address life-critical fire safety risks from cladding and there are no alternatives to fund the works.
- Bring forward legislation to ensure that regulators can enforce the remediation or mitigation of critical issues following a decant of a residential building of 11m+. This will ensure that decants are either averted, or residents can return to their homes as quickly as possible.
- Implement a long-term, sustainable approach to the Waking Watch Replacement Fund.
- Ensure that, even after remediation, social landlords who have signed the Joint Plan continue to allow shared owners to sublet their properties up to the market rent level where demonstrable efforts are being made to sell the property.
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