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Local Road Maintenance Contracts – £100million invested into local roads

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Local Road Maintenance Contracts – could your business benefit?

Local road maintenance contracts are expected to be announced as the government announces a prolonged £100 million investment into local road conditions.

“As the country begins the recovery from COVID-19, we need to get on the front foot and invest in infrastructure in every region to reignite the economy, helping better connect people with opportunities in the future.  

“By investing £100 million in local roads and reaffirming our commitment to better connecting communities, we are not just talking about levelling up – but making it happen.” – Grant Shapps, Transport Secretary.

The projects

A total of 29 projects will benefit from the investment. These projects will range from fixing deteriorating road surfaces to flood mitigation works and bridge repairs. The aim of the projects is to make a long-lasting improvement to the quality of local highways throughout the UK.

High-quality road surfaces lie at the heart of the public’s ability to travel for both work and leisure. By making these improvements, the aim is to encourage the economic boost needed to help the UK recover from the COVID pandemic.

The listed projects include some of the UK’s most important A-roads, stretching from the A58 in Bolton to the A38 in Somerset.

You can expect to see local road maintenance contracts for;

  • The repair of two bridges in Sandwell;
  • Key routes in Liverpool;
  • Swanswell Viaduct;
  • Tadcaster Road, York;
  • Footpaths in Sheffield
  • And the A15.

Where can you find local road maintenance contracts?

Don’t worry about keeping track of hundreds of sites, waiting for contracts to be announced. Our team at Construction Tenders do this daily. They manually search through thousands of sources to ensure you never miss construction leads. Once they have identified new tenders, they are uploaded to our dedicated portal and tagged with industry-driven keywords. This means that you can simply log into the portal, select the keywords with relevance to your business and instantly find new construction contracts in the UK. Not only that, you can also use the location filter to easily find the most recent contract opportunities in your area.

Don’t have time to log in? We’ll send you an email alert each time a relevant opportunity is uploaded to our system.

Below are previous local road maintenance contracts sourced on our portal:

Mini competition – A6 Chorley Road Junction

Salford City Council- North West- Budget: Undisclosed

Installation of new pop-up Cycle Paths within Hull City Centre – Expression of Interest

Hull City Council- Yorkshire and Humber- Budget: Undisclosed

GB-Braintree: Cemetery Embankment Works

Braintree District Council- Eastern- Budget: £100,000

Road Recycling Works Within the Municipal District of Athlone and Moate

Westmeath County Council- International- Budget: Undisclosed

Area 10 M65 Junction 2 Safety Scheme GPR, Trial Pits, Asbestos and Lighting

Highways England- North West- Budget: £25,000

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The team proudly hold an 87% bid success rate and they support over 700 businesses, globally. Get in touch to speak to a consultant today about construction contracts.

Concrete Tenders and the Construction Industry

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Concrete Tenders and the Construction Industry

Great news – the construction industry is brimming with complex concrete tenders. This means that there is a wide range of construction contracts, suitable for both small and large organisations.

Additionally, the concrete industry is rapidly evolving. Buyers and suppliers must consider innovations, sustainable growth and their supply chains.

So what kind of concrete tenders might you find?

Possibilities include:

  • Kerbs and sleepers
  • Cement supply
  • Building material supply
  • Aggregates and ready mixed concrete
  • Concrete removal
  • Repairs and remedial works
  • Full refurbishments
  • Car park repairs

Opportunities also exist for concrete sub-categories such as:

  • Aggregates
  • Ready-made concrete
  • Rebar
  • Concrete blocks
  • Pre-cast concretes
  • Cement materials
  • Admixtures
  • Mortar

Categories that concrete tenders apply to can both public and private sector buyers. Opportunities to apply for concrete tenders exist in:

  • Retail and commercial spaces
  • Residential sites
  • Education and healthcare sites
  • Commercial sites and industrial buildings
  • Museums and public offices

The list really does go on. The concrete industry is rapidly expanding, and with that – tendering opportunities.

Broadly speaking, public sector buyers will advertise more framework tenders than private sector buyers. That does not mean to say that the public sector is short of single contract concrete tenders. Quite the opposite. Concrete tenders remain a high demand service provision across the changing urban landscape.

CDM 2015

On any concrete tenders project, you may be required to work with a range of other contractors. For example, architects, quantity surveyors, and other material suppliers.

Working with other stakeholders, you must be able to demonstrate your ability to collaborate, manage contracts, and create mobilisation plans which will effectively deliver the work.

Familiarity with CDM 2015 is also essential for many concrete construction projects. More formally named the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, contractors must now create a construction plan. Dependent on the scale of work involved, contractors may also need to inform relevant regulatory bodies, like HSE.

For large-scale tenders, a principal contractor will be assigned to the contract. Their responsibility is to effectively manage a project’s construction phase, ensuring it is streamlined, organised and compliant with legislation.

Other projects may require you to be familiar with a JCT contract in a non-principal contractor capacity. Familiarity with CDM regulations and JCT contracts are therefore essential in the concrete tendering process. It may sound obvious, but If you have JCT contract experience, your case studies are invaluable here.

It’s worth building up a bank of your key experience. A useful approach here could be to spend time creating a JCT experience spreadsheet. This could detail aspects including:

  • Project title and client;
  • Location;
  • Contract dates and values;
  • Contract management team (such as Contract Manager, Site Manager and Project Manager);
  • JCT specifics;
  • A short summary of your organisation’s roles and responsibilities;
  • The contract brief, with details such as budget and specification;
  • Details of the site, such as warehouse, hotel, etc.;
  • A summary of your specific working practices and methods;
  • Key referee contact details;
  • Any other added value which you provided to the project

This spreadsheet will support your case study development. It will also enable you to quickly gather all contract facts and figures from one place. The spreadsheet approach can save you time and reduce the number of back-and-forth emails between colleagues.

BIM

An understanding of Building Information Modelling (BIM) can be beneficial on some concrete tenders. This is because BIM facilitates better information sharing and data between parties involved in a project’s design and construction. Therefore, if you choose to tender as a concrete manufacturer, having product data sheets ready can be beneficial.

This data can be used to support BIM processes. Additionally, some buyers may require BIM as a specification requirement. Contributing to BIM data will also help deliver more effective sustainable processes during construction design. Therefore, the benefits of BIM to concrete tenders are:

  • That accurate data modelling is provided, which benefits all project contributors;
  • It can model the potential environmental and embodied carbon effect of concrete products and materials;
  • It can benefit BREEAM sustainability assessments.

Concrete and environmental considerations

Concrete is heavily linked to carbon, sustainability, and responsible sourcing processes. Within the tendering process, buyers may request concrete-specific standards and codes. These codes are standards for thermal performance, environmental impact, reinforcements, aggregates and more.

As a supplier, you should be familiar with standards and codes such as:  

  • Thermal Performance: Part L1A 2013
  • Target Fabric Energy Efficiency rates (TFEE)
  • BS EN 1992, Eurocode 2: Design of concrete structures
  • BS 8297: 2017 Design, manufacture and installation of architectural precast concrete cladding code of practice
  • BS EN 206: 2013 +A1:2016 – Concrete – specification, performance, production and conformity
  • BS 8500-2:2015+A2:2019 – Concrete – specifying and guidance for the specifier
  • BS EN 197-1:2011 – Composition, specification and conformity criteria for common cements.
  • BS EN 10080:2005 – Steel for the reinforcement of concrete – Weldable reinforcing steel – General
  • BES 6001 – Responsible sourcing of construction products

The above list is dependent on the type of service and material supplied. The key point here is ensure that your organisation is fully up-to-date with industry requirements. Not only this – you must be able to demonstrate these requirements.

You can do this through evidence, case studies, sample documents, training records, and similar. As a golden rule, the more specific and relevant your evidence is, the better.

PAS 91 

The PAS 91 is often essential to complete in construction bids. It is a standardised pre-qualification questionnaire for the construction industry. The PAS 91 is a comprehensive questionnaire which requests supplier information about:

  • Essential company and contact information
  • The company’s financial standing
  • Insurances in place
  • Business standing – verifying the organisation and staff integrity
  • Health and Safety policies

Whilst the PAS 91 is a very rigorous questionnaire, it does offer exemptions if you have specific accreditations. This is because those accreditations already demonstrate you have the required criteria. Certifications and memberships that may gain you an exemption to certain PAS 91 question responses include:

  • ISO 18001 International Health and Safety Management systems accreditation
  • Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP) membership
  • ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems accreditation
  • ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems accreditation

That is not to say that having these accreditations are essential to completing a PAS 91 questionnaire. It does however make the process a lot simpler! The reason is that these certifications save time and effort during the sometimes complex tendering process.

Bigger organisations who tender frequently would benefit from having these accreditations in place. Or, to be working towards accreditation.

There is a lot of cost, time and planning involved in becoming accredited. Smaller organisations must weigh up the benefits of each accreditation to the type of work they will tender for. Broadly speaking, having any level of ISO Quality Management Accreditation will benefit your organisation and the concrete tendering process.

The reason is that health and safety, quality and environmental quality management systems are organisation-wide processes. They demonstrate that you have processes, procedures and systems in place to consistently deliver a standard. These accreditations will enable you to discuss persuasively why your organisation is best placed to deliver concrete tenders.

To prepare for ISO accreditation requires a thorough review (and sometimes upheaval) of organisational processes. Careful consideration must be given to the end goal. This means not only thinking about accreditation but also that planning must be projected forward to maintaining those ISO management systems. This can be through people, planning, policies, training, company ethos, and documentation, for example.

Health & Safety 

As with any construction project, health and safety is absolutely paramount. When preparing concrete tenders, due consideration should be given to risk assessments, COSHH, RIDDOR and PPE.

Organisations must consider:

  • All employees
  • Members of the public
  • Vulnerable workers
  • Site visitors

Risks present during any concrete works may include:

  • Working at height
  • Manual handling
  • Machinery, plant and equipment
  • Harmful substances
  • Noise
  • Slips and falls

Companies are now expected to manage coronavirus risk. These essentially come down to managing risk in various capacities. The key points here are to identify, assess and control risks. Essential to this process is to document your findings and propose mitigation strategies.

How can we help you with your next concrete tender? Contact us today to find out more. We offer a full range of service which can improve your organisation’s potential.

At Hudson, we also provide a dedicated portal, Construction Tenders. On this portal, you can find the most relevant construction leads and up-to-date concrete tenders across the UK and further afield.

Signing up, you will receive the following benefits which will support your tendering efforts:

  • A dedicated Account Manager, who will answer your tendering queries;
  • Daily new tenders, relevant to you, direct to your inbox;
  • You can search this sector-specific portal using filters that you need. No more scouring across lots of different websites for relevant tenders. We have all construction contracts in the UK right here on one easy portal;
  • We don’t use computer algorithms to find concrete tenders, but dedicated Opportunity Trackers. This Opportunity Tracking team manually do all of the hard work for you;
  • Ultimately, our construction portal will save you time, money and effort. So what are you waiting for? Contact us today, to find your next ideal concrete tendering opportunity.

Get in Touch with Construction Tenders:

Sign up to Construction Tenders today and receive a daily bulletin straight to your inbox, containing all relevant small construction tenders uploaded that day.

Below are past concrete tenders sourced on our portal:

Concrete Survey

NHS South West – Acutes- South West- Budget: £70,000

Contractor Services for Steel and Concrete Repairs for Kingsway Fan Grill Replacement and Associated Works

Merseytravel- North West- Budget: Undisclosed

Framework Agreement for the Supply of Ready Mixed Concrete

City & County of Swansea- Wales- Budget: Undisclosed

Kirkby Wharfe New – Concrete Saddle

North Yorkshire County Council- Yorkshire and Humber- Budget: Undisclosed

Pre-cast Concrete L-Shape Retaining Walls

SCS JV- London- Budget: £2,500,000

This includes the following:

Further Support

The construction industry has a wide range of  Concrete Tenders on offer. If you need support in your tendering efforts, contact us today.

Masonry Tenders

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Masonry Tenders – How to bid for Masonry Contracts

Are you looking to branch out and start tendering for masonry contracts? Then this blog is for you. We’ve compiled our inside knowledge of masonry tenders so that you know what’s what when it comes to bidding for these.

As you’ll know, masonry tenders will be released by buyers who need to procure stonework or stonework repairs.

What’s different about the public sector?

Public sector tenders are a great way to secure a sustainable income for your company and build up a credible portfolio of professional references

So, what should you expect from masonry tenders in the public sector?

Tender documentation

Tender documentation for masonry tenders will mostly remain standardised across buyers and contract types within the construction industry. Masonry tenders may include:

A PAS 91.

This is a standardised Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) for construction related procurement which is used nationally. PAS 91s are the construction sector’s answer to a typical PQQ you’ll find in public tenders for other sectors.

These ensure that buyers engage companies which are safe and ethical – particularly important in the construction industry.

PAS 91s have the same structure every time for ease of use across the sector. You’ll have to answer questions in the following sections:

  • Company structure and details;
  • Financial data;
  • Insurances;
  • Environmental management;
  • Quality management;
  • Equal opportunities and diversity;
  • Health and safety;
  • Project specific questions.

Don’t worry if this sounds overwhelming. Certain accreditations exempt you from answering some sections of a PAS 91, for example:

  • ISO 14001 exempts you from answering the Environmental Management section;
  • ISO 9001 exempts you from answering the Quality Management section;
  • CHAS or OHASAS 18001 exempts you from answering the Health and Safety section;
  • Constructionline Gold exempts you from the majority of questions asked.

Constructionline Bronze and Silver will exempt you from some sections too. It’s worth looking into obtaining these accreditations as it will streamline your bidding for masonry tenders.

If you’re still stuck, our bid writing consultants at Hudson Succeed could help.

Method statements

Buyers will want to see you demonstrate your competency through written quality responses or method statements. These will appear further down in the tender documentation. These method statements may cover the following subjects:

  • Your service delivery plan. How will you deliver the requirements within the specification? What machinery will you use? How long will it take you to complete each task?
  • Contract mobilisation. Buyers might want to know your processes for how you will ensure that the contract is ready to commence on the stipulated date. Activities to complete here may entail:
    • Any necessary recruitment;
    • Additional training;
    • Ordering of equipment and/or materials;
    • Internal and external meetings;
    • Site visits.

It may be beneficial here to include a mobilisation plan – either a table within the response document or a Gantt chart as an appendix. This acts as a visual representation of which tasks you’ll undergo and how long it will take you to complete them.

  • Your staff. Here, it may be applicable to list your proposed project team, as well as their experience and qualifications. Staff development may also be relevant in this question. Points to cover could include what training (induction and ongoing) staff must undergo. Comprehensive and documented training demonstrates that staff are competent to deliver buyers’ requirements.
  • Health and Safety. Such questions may cover risk management, approach to Health and Safety or live site management. Here you could attach relevant company documentation to show your compliance and procedures. It will be important to break Health and Safety questions down, as they often ask about a ‘theme’ which has multiple elements to cover. Create subheadings here to make sure you cover everything relevant.
  • Quality assurance. Achieving zero defects, maintaining a skilled workforce and functioning machinery, monitoring your supply chain. Some companies struggle to describe concrete quality assurance processes. It’s important to mention ‘real’ or ‘concrete’ processes that can be documented and not concepts that are not anchored in best practice.
  • Environmental considerations. How do you minimise the impact of your service on the environment? This may be your approach to vehicle use, your choice of suppliers or recycling initiatives, to name a few.
  • Business continuity. How can you ensure that you can still deliver your services in the instance of an unforeseen event, such as inclement weather or staff absences? Some companies may have a Business Continuity plan or policy which underpins their approach here. Business continuity is important to buyers because they want to make sure that their suppliers will be able to deliver the work on time and on budget.

A pricing schedule

Masonry tenders will certainly include a pricing schedule. Your success will be determined by a combination of your pricing and method statement scores. It’s important to think carefully about your pricing to ensure that you fill in all fields with appropriate rates. Price competitively, but not abnormally low. Buyers reserve the right to clarify or disqualify any rates they deem abnormally low. Be reasonable and go with your instinct. Remember that you know your business best and are therefore in the best position to price your services.

But which public sector organisations will be procuring masonry work?

It could be councils, hospitals, universities or housing associations. Private tenders could be from a wide range of organisations and could require masonry services on any type of building all across the country.

Masonry tenders may appear in a variety of contract formats. These are reflective of the scope of work and the buyer’s requirements. They could be:

  • Single supplier contracts. One winner takes all. This will be the bidder with the best price and quality score combined. Winning these is harder for start-ups or new companies.
  • Framework agreements. The best proportion of bidders are successful. You’ll then be called off to bid for works, so being successful on a framework doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll definitely deliver work.
  • Dynamic Purchasing Systems (DPS). The best options for newer companies. DPS’ are like frameworks, but successful organisations are added to the register as and when. If you’re unsuccessful, you can apply again. Once successful, you’ll be called off for work like on a framework.

Things to bear in mind when drafting your responses

  1. Review the requirements

Make sure you look through the tender documentation so that you understand all requirements when it comes to submission. Equally, look over the specification and incorporate it into your responses. Directly addressing the buyer’s requirements is a sure-fire way to enhance your quality score.

Having a robust process for reviewing documentation will also save you time. It will prevent you from being halfway through creating a proposal and then realising you cannot meet one of the requirements.

  1. Check, check, and check again

This goes for the entirety of your tender response. PAS 91s have many fields to fill and certain attachments to append. Buyers have the right to disqualify your tender response if you don’t attach what is requested. Thoroughly review your response to ensure that you haven’t missed anything.

Similarly, if you’re the kind of person who leaves gaps to return to, make sure you’ve not left these blank! It goes without saying that complete tender submissions are the most advantageous, so don’t submit something you’ve not rigorously checked over.

  1. Give detail

For everything. This not only shows that you’ve read the specification, but also that you’ve thought about your processes. Drill down on your procedures and the way you’ll tackle the service delivery. Each sentence should have a point. Generic statements have no place in tender responses and should relate to how you’ll deliver requirements or describe the benefits of your service delivery.

  1. Plan your responses

Creating subheadings from the question will help with this. Planning responses will ensure that you give the best answer you can, while also keeping you on track. This will also give you an opportunity to have your wider team feed in where necessary, as it will identify gaps.

How can Hudson help you with Masonry Tenders?

If you’re searching for masonry tenders, Construction Tenders from Hudson Discover could help you. While other portals rely on CPV codes, Hudson Discover uses real people, Opportunity Trackers, to source daily contract opportunities for our portal customers. You’ll receive a daily email bulletin with all tenders relevant to your service offering. So, if you’re wondering how to find masonry tenders while also running your business, look no further than Construction Tenders.

Sign up to Construction Tenders today and receive a daily construction leads bulletin straight to your inbox. The bulletin contains all the relevant small, and larger, construction tenders that we have uploaded that day.

Below are some masonry tenders sourced on our portal:

Flint and Masonry Repair of Ancient Monuments

In-Tend Shared Services- Eastern- Budget: £100,000

Masonry (Brick and Block) Works Breadsall Primary School

Derbyshire County Council- East Midlands- Budget: Undisclosed

Underpinning, Repairs to Masonry and Reinstatement Works – Oakwood Road

London Borough of Hillingdon- London- Budget: £140,000

Masonry Repairs to the Art Block at Taunton Campus

Bridgwater and Taunton College- South West- Budget: Undisclosed

Masonry Repairs St Helen’s Church, Worcester

PCC All Saints, Worcester- West Midlands- Budget: £220,000

Our Opportunity Trackers manually scour and upload masonry tenders from hundreds of sites across the UK. You are able to filter the results by budget, location, keyword and more. This saves you even more time. Our Construction Tenders portal also hosts opportunities across the construction industry.

And if you’ve found a construction contract you like the look of but don’t know where to begin, have a chat with our expert consultants at Hudson Succeed. They have four support packages to help you see success in your construction bids. Get in touch for more information.

Need help writing your next tender?

If you don’t have the resources or time to write a winning bid, why not outsource it? Our sister company, Hudson Succeed, boasts an 87% success rate and has over 60 years of collective bidding experience. They offer four bid writing support packages to help you on the path to success. Whether you’re new to tendering, or simply need someone to proof your written response before you submit – we can help.

Tender Ready

Our Tender Ready programme is designed for those who have never tendered before. This 4-week programme works with you to ensure you have everything in place to tender successfully.

Tender Improvement

Tender Improvement can help if you’re already tendering but aren’t seeing success from your current efforts. Our Bid Writers will assess your previous submissions and supporting documents. They’ll give you feedback and guidance on how to improve, helping you to secure your next structural engineering tender.

Tender Mentor

If you’ve written a tender and need someone to proofread it – Tender Mentor is for you. A Bid Writer will double-check it’s in line with the specification and free of any grammar or spelling mistakes.

Tender Writing

If you’ve found the perfect tender but don’t know where to start – we can help. Send the specification over to us and our Bid Team will do the rest. They’ll let you know what they need from you and provide you with a full breakdown. They’ll even submit it on your behalf, leaving you more time to focus on your business.

Get in touch to find out more information.

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Health and Safety Tenders – Everything you Need to Know

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A Guide to Health and Safety Tenders

The UK construction sector 

The construction industry in the UK is enormous. According to the Office for National Statistics, there are over 325,000 registered construction businesses. This covers categories including not only construction but also civil engineering and specialist works. With that, comes a wide range of health and safety requirements which must be met. 

The health and safety industry

Effective health and safety is absolutely crucial for any construction business to operate. Fortunately, there is a wide range of rules, legislation and guidance available from, for example:

  • The UK Government
  • CDM Regulations 2015
  • CHAS and SSIP
  • Constructionline
  • The Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
  • The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act
  • Building Regulations
  • Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR)
  • The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)

A heavily regulated industry, opportunities are available within both the public and private construction sector. These may include individual contract opportunities, Dynamic Purchasing Systems and Framework Agreements. 

What kind of Health and safety tenders are available?

There are health and safety tenders available in the following categories:

  • Training
  • Consultancy
  • Management

Sub-sectors that you might find health and safety tenders include:

How can professional health and safety services benefit buyers in the construction industry?

Buyers seek professional consultancy, training and management services for many reasons:

  • To optimise the health and safety of their staff and customers
  • Compliance with current legislation
  • To provide evidence of health and safety protocols
  • They are seeking to expand their business and must establish better management systems and structures

Therefore, procurement through health and safety tenders may provide them with the following benefits:

  • Increasing staff morale and leadership within the workplace
  • Developing an organisation’s culture centred around health and safety
  • Improved staff confidence and retention in the organisation
  • Lower insurance costs
  • Overall reduction of health and safety risks and incidents on a daily basis 

What experience should you have? 

Within the construction sector, buyers will seek a supplier who can provide a comprehensive range of services. This includes proven experience and ability in the following areas:

Review and development of health and safety policies

In consultancy and management roles, you may be expected to know which health and safety requirements are essential. Examples include:

  • Training records
  • Accident reporting and investigations
  • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
  • First Aid
  • Audits
  • Monitoring and surveillance
  • Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
  • Fire Safety
  • CDM regulations
  • Working at height

As a supplier, you must demonstrate that you thoroughly understand workplace health and safety in context. This includes how these processes are implemented, improved and communicated in the workplace.

Health and safety training

In health and safety training roles, you must demonstrate a similar knowledge. Additionally, having experience delivering training in a range of contexts is beneficial.

For example, this could include training delivered through seminars, digital learning platforms, and on-site groups. You must be capable of training individuals at all levels, from operatives to directors.

Developing case studies is an excellent way to demonstrate health and safety training in context. A useful and effective tool is the STAR method. STAR means Situation, Task, Action and Result. Writing your health and safety training experience under these headings will ensure you demonstrate your skills with clarity. Developing a good bank of persuasive, clear case studies will give your organisation a competitive edge.

ISO 45001 Health and Safety Management System

Some buyers may seek external support for their own organisation to gain accreditation. This is suitable for larger organisations who already implement many formal processes and procedures. It may also benefit smaller organisations.

For example, those who may struggle to fully understand the requirements of a health and safety management system. This is where high-quality health and safety consultation services can shine.

ISO 45001 has replaced OHSAS 18001 as an international standard. The focus of this management system is to create working conditions which are safe. The ISO 45001 system was designed for integration with other ISO systems. For example, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001. Therefore, organisations who are already accredited with these ISOs may find the accreditation process for ISO 45001 easier.

Typically, organisations seeking support with their health and safety tenders may require consultation and training with:

  • Carrying out an internal audit
  • Understanding and solidifying what the organisation seeks to achieve, through a safety management system
  • Developing their internal policies and procedures for compliance
  • Carrying out a gap analysis to assess any organisational issues and provide solutions

Health and safety tenders and COVID-19 

It goes without saying – responding to COVID-19 concerns is at the forefront of each organisation’s priorities. This may continue for the foreseeable future. Therefore, the scope for health and safety tenders is rapidly expanding.

The ISO organisation is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by the development of a new ISO: 45003. This is scheduled for publication in 2021 next year. ISO 45003 will build upon ISO 45001, with a focus on psychological health and safety.

Knowledge of new legislation – COVID-19 

Essential to health and safety tenders going forward will be the management of COVID-19 risk. This includes:

  • Construction working and outdoor work
  • Working in people’s homes
  • Working in warehouses and factories
  • Working with vehicles

On 11th May the Government published COVID-19 guidance for the workplace. This provides protocols and steps for businesses to operate safely during the pandemic.

Therefore, you must be able to evidence, for example:

  • How you keep up-to-date with legislation and guidance
  • Knowledge of relevant legislation, acts and guidance to the workplace you will be providing services
  • Your strategies and recommendations for the buyer which will maximise not only health and safety, but also value

Crucial to COVID-19 health and safety legislation is different guidance for different regions. Therefore, it is important to differentiate between guidance for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register (OSHCR)

Many health and safety consultants are registered with the Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register (OSHCR). However, this is not a requirement for every health and safety tender. It does provide additional value to your organisation when tendering and a competitive edge.

The OSHCR is recommended by HSE (Health and Safety Executive). It is worth bearing this in mind – when developing specifications, buyers will refer to best practice.

Consultants registered with the OSHCR can provide additional assurances to their clients. Membership demonstrates that you are fully committed to professional standards. It requires chartered status or membership with a professional body. This can include qualifications at degree level. You must also have in place appropriate insurance, relevant to the consultancy services you provide. 

CHAS

Some organisations may seek support with CHAS (Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme) accreditation through health and safety tenders. CHAS accreditation is essential for many construction companies to tender for work. It demonstrates to their own clients that they are fully compliant in a range of modules.

For example:

  • Health and Safety
  • Environment
  • Equality and Diversity
  • Finances and business standing

A key element of accreditation with CHAS is risk management. Suppliers must confirm, demonstrate and provide evidence of a wide range of policies and protocols to qualify. Providing suppliers support with CHAS accreditation can prove beneficial and lucrative for both consultant and supplier. This is because the foundations for good practice are established, long term.

CDM Regulations 2015 

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 are crucial for construction health and safety. Many construction professionals will already be fully familiar with the guidance and its application.

However, some construction organisations may seek external professional guidance during a construction project.

CDM regulations are more than guidelines. They are expected health and safety duties which construction companies must adhere to during all project stages. The purpose of these regulations is to ensure that each project is:

  • completed in a way which ensures the safety of everyone on site
  • ensures that the building, site or land is safe to use
  • providing value for money and longevity following product sign-off

There is a lot to consider when approaching health and safety tenders. Therefore, it is essential to demonstrate appropriate evidence, experience and relevant knowledge. To improve your prospects when tendering for consultancy, management or training bids, reflect on the following key points:

  • Your own bank of evidence is just as essential as those you develop for your clients.

These roles require many of the qualities of tender writing. This includes organising your evidence to ensure it is fully accounted for and relevant to your aims. Insurance, finances, certifications, memberships, CVs and policies are essential.

  • Have a clear company structure in place.

This applies whether you are providing consultancy services as an individual or an organisation. Clarify roles and responsibilities of each person who will provide services. Establish who is accountable for communications and actions.

  • Consider how you can add value to the buyer’s organisation, additional to specification requirements.

For example, do you have particular links to additional health and safety resources that competitors may lack? What processes do you have which will reduce the time spent on a task, whilst increasing quality?

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Below are some health and safety tenders sourced on our portal:

Health and Safety Compliance Framework

Central & Cecil Housing Trust- London- Budget: Undisclosed

07-12-2020

Health and Safety Consultancy

The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames- South East- Budget: £12,000

15-01-2021

Health and Safety Management System

Citizen- West Midlands- Budget: Undisclosed

22-01-2021

Health and Safety Services

Birmingham City Council- West Midlands- Budget: Undisclosed

15-01-2021

Health and Safety Support for the Council’s Revitalisation of Health and Safety Programme and Implementation of a Compliance Assurance System

Cheshire West and Chester- North West- Budget: Undisclosed

23-02-2021

Need help writing your next tender?

If you don’t have the resources or time to write a winning bid, why not outsource it? Our sister company, Hudson Succeed, boasts an 87% success rate and has over 60 years of collective bidding experience. They offer four bid writing support packages to help you on the path to success. Whether you’re new to tendering, or simply need someone to proof your written response before you submit – we can help.

Tender Ready

Our Tender Ready programme is designed for those who have never tendered before. This 4-week programme works with you to ensure you have everything in place to tender successfully.

Tender Improvement

Tender Improvement can help if you’re already tendering but aren’t seeing success from your current efforts. Our Bid Writers will assess your previous submissions and supporting documents. They’ll give you feedback and guidance on how to improve, helping you to secure your next structural engineering tender.

Tender Mentor

If you’ve written a tender and need someone to proofread it – Tender Mentor is for you. A Bid Writer will double-check it’s in line with the specification and free of any grammar or spelling mistakes.

Tender Writing

If you’ve found the perfect tender but don’t know where to start – we can help. Send the specification over to us and our Bid Team will do the rest. They’ll let you know what they need from you and provide you with a full breakdown. They’ll even submit it on your behalf, leaving you more time to focus on your business.

Get in touch to find out more information.

We actively source tenders for the following sub-sectors:

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We’ve Rebranded! New Construction Tenders logo

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Our parent company, Hudson, is going through a complete rebrand and so here at Construction Tenders, we have a new look, too!

You can check out our new logos and colour palette below:

construction tenders logo

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We hope you like it, we know we do!

 

Remember you can keep up to date with all the latest small construction contracts from around the UK by becoming a subscriber today.

Get in Touch with Construction Tenders:

Sign up to Construction Tenders today and receive a daily bulletin straight to your inbox, containing all relevant small construction leads uploaded that day.

Need help writing your next tender?

If you don’t have the resources or time to write a winning bid, why not outsource it? Our sister company, Hudson Succeed, boasts an 87% success rate and has over 60 years of collective bidding experience. They offer four bid writing support packages to help you on the path to success. Whether you’re new to tendering, or simply need someone to proof your written response before you submit – we can help.

Tender Ready

Our Tender Ready programme is designed for those who have never tendered before. This 4-week programme works with you to ensure you have everything in place to tender successfully.

Tender Improvement

Tender Improvement can help if you’re already tendering but aren’t seeing success from your current efforts. Our Bid Writers will assess your previous submissions and supporting documents. They’ll give you feedback and guidance on how to improve, helping you to secure your next structural engineering tender.

Tender Mentor

If you’ve written a tender and need someone to proofread it – Tender Mentor is for you. A Bid Writer will double-check it’s in line with the specification and free of any grammar or spelling mistakes.

Tender Writing

If you’ve found the perfect tender but don’t know where to start – we can help. Send the specification over to us and our Bid Team will do the rest. They’ll let you know what they need from you and provide you with a full breakdown. They’ll even submit it on your behalf, leaving you more time to focus on your business.

Get in touch to find out more information.

We actively source tenders for the following sub-sectors:

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PRIVATE CONSTRUCTION TENDERS | 5 NEW CONTRACTS

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Private Construction Tenders Announced – Exclusive to our Portal! At Construction Tenders we are constantly working with private buyers to bring our clients those all-important private construction contracts in the UK. This time we are giving you access to these new contracts – completely free of charge. If you think you could deliver the following private construction tenders, please feel free to contact the buyer directly.

Demolition Contract – Yorkshire – £150K – 05/10/2018 Organisation seeking to establish a contract with a suitably experienced provider of demolition works.

Groundworks Contract – Yorkshire – £50K – 05/10/2018 Buyer seeking to establish a contract with an experienced supplier of groundworks.

Masonry Contract – Yorkshire – £200K – 05/10/2018 Buyer seeking a qualified supplier for the provision of masonry services.

Roofing Contract – Yorkshire – £65K – 05/10/2018 Contracting authority requiring roofing services from qualified providers.

Steelwork Contract – Yorkshire – £75K – 05/10/2018 Tender submissions required from suitably qualified parties for the undertaking of steelworks.

We are bringing you these private small construction tenders in order to demonstrate the type of opportunities we source on our portal. With 30-60 new tenders uploaded DAILY, our customers never miss new business opportunities.

To see more of our portal, including our currently sourced contracts, BOOK A FREE TRIAL OF OUR LIVE SITE HERE.

If you have already found a tender that you would like to bid for but don’t have the time and resources to compose responses internally, SPEAK TO ONE OF OUR TENDER CONSULTANTS today for a free consultation. Our consultants have over 16yrs experience and an 83% success rate writing and preparing tenders for clients across multiple sectors including Construction, Engineering and Architecture.

Our customers are currently receiving alerts for new contracts, released TODAY! Never miss another opportunity again and join our portal now.

 

Get in Touch with Construction Tenders:

Sign up to Construction Tenders today and receive a daily bulletin straight to your inbox, containing all relevant small construction leads uploaded that day.

Need help writing your next tender?

If you don’t have the resources or time to write a winning bid, why not outsource it? Our sister company, Hudson Succeed, boasts an 87% success rate and has over 60 years of collective bidding experience. They offer four bid writing support packages to help you on the path to success. Whether you’re new to tendering, or simply need someone to proof your written response before you submit – we can help.

Tender Ready

Our Tender Ready programme is designed for those who have never tendered before. This 4-week programme works with you to ensure you have everything in place to tender successfully.

Tender Improvement

Tender Improvement can help if you’re already tendering but aren’t seeing success from your current efforts. Our Bid Writers will assess your previous submissions and supporting documents. They’ll give you feedback and guidance on how to improve, helping you to secure your next structural engineering tender.

Tender Mentor

If you’ve written a tender and need someone to proofread it – Tender Mentor is for you. A Bid Writer will double-check it’s in line with the specification and free of any grammar or spelling mistakes.

Tender Writing

If you’ve found the perfect tender but don’t know where to start – we can help. Send the specification over to us and our Bid Team will do the rest. They’ll let you know what they need from you and provide you with a full breakdown. They’ll even submit it on your behalf, leaving you more time to focus on your business.

Get in touch to find out more information.

We actively source tenders for the following sub-sectors:

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Book A Demo | Tender for Construction work

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Book A Demo | Tender for Construction work

Here at Construction Tenders our Business Development Team is second to none. We understand that buying into a subscription for a product you aren’t entirely sure of can be daunting and want to make sure you are as confident as we are about what exactly it can do for your business. For this reason we give you the opportunity to view our platform via a remote live demo with one of our friendly team. From this you will be able to view all of the functionalities we have to offer and allow you to see for yourself how simple it is to use. This particular technique allows for a quick understanding of the platform as any questions or queries can resolved instantly that may be hindering your decision. Once the demo has come to an end, we allow for use of the platform until the end of the day so that you have the chance to explore for yourself and gain familiarity with the various functions. From here, we are just a phone call away to answer further questions or assist you with any purchases you wish to pursue.

Get in Touch with Construction Tenders:

Sign up to Construction Tenders today and receive a daily bulletin straight to your inbox, containing all relevant small construction leads uploaded that day.

Need help writing your next tender?

If you don’t have the resources or time to write a winning bid, why not outsource it? Our sister company, Hudson Succeed, boasts an 87% success rate and has over 60 years of collective bidding experience. They offer four bid writing support packages to help you on the path to success. Whether you’re new to tendering, or simply need someone to proof your written response before you submit – we can help.

Tender Ready

Our Tender Ready programme is designed for those who have never tendered before. This 4-week programme works with you to ensure you have everything in place to tender successfully.

Tender Improvement

Tender Improvement can help if you’re already tendering but aren’t seeing success from your current efforts. Our Bid Writers will assess your previous submissions and supporting documents. They’ll give you feedback and guidance on how to improve, helping you to secure your next structural engineering tender.

Tender Mentor

If you’ve written a tender and need someone to proofread it – Tender Mentor is for you. A Bid Writer will double-check it’s in line with the specification and free of any grammar or spelling mistakes.

Tender Writing

If you’ve found the perfect tender but don’t know where to start – we can help. Send the specification over to us and our Bid Team will do the rest. They’ll let you know what they need from you and provide you with a full breakdown. They’ll even submit it on your behalf, leaving you more time to focus on your business.

Get in touch to find out more information.

We actively source tenders for the following sub-sectors:

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