Efficiency East Midlands Ltd (EEM) is a procurement consortium which establishes and manages a range of framework agreements. EEM on behalf of its members are looking to establish a Facilities Management Framework covering, Soft , Hard and Total Facilities Management Services .The framework will provide EEM Members with a planned preventative maintenance , reactive maintenance and complete building asset maintenance management service .

The Framework is being procured by Efficiency East Midlands Limited ('EEM') on behalf of their members and the other organisations described below as being Authorised Users. The following Contracting Authorities will be entitled to agree and award contracts under this framework agreement:
1. Any Member of EEM which for the avoidance of doubt currently includes 3 partner consortia -Westworks, Advantage South West and South East Consortium. A full list of current members is availableatwww.eem.org.uk
2. Any future Member of EEM or our partner consortia, and in all cases has being an organisation which has applied to join EEM or our partner consortia in accordance with the applicable constitutional documents
3. An EEM Participant being an organisation which is neither a current or EEM Member nor a Future Member of EEM based within England and Wales which owns and/or maintains/manages housing stock in one or more geographic area in which it operates and/or is an NHS Trust (which includes Acute Trusts, Mental Trusts, Care Services Trusts and Ambulance Trusts) or organisation, police authority, fire authority, ambulance trust, university, higher education, further education college, school academy or other public sector organisation.
Further details regarding the Authorised Users of this framework can be found in the ITT documents.

The Framework has been split into 3 work stream lots;
Lot 1 Soft
Lot 2 - Hard
Lot 3 Total Facilities Management

Each of the above lots has 5 geographical sub-lots as follows;

Sub-Lot 1 - East Midlands
Sub-Lot 2 - West Midlands
Sub-Lot 3 - Greater London and the South East
Sub-Lot 4 - South West
Sub-Lot 5 - National Coverage

More details can be found in the tender documentation.

To respond to this tender or review the documentation, please:
1) go to the portal https://xantive.supplierselect.com
2) if you need to register a new account follow the prompts to set up your organisation;
3) when you sign in select "Public Projects" from the menu (top right). A list of all open tenders will be displayed;
4) select "EEM Facilities Management" from the list of projects and then"Create Opportunity". That will give you access to the basic information;
5) click "Accept Opportunity" to get more detail. There is no obligation to submit a response;
6) if you do wish to submit a response, do so before the deadline by changing the Status to Submitted. You will only be allowed to submit if every mandatory question is answered.