How to win: Interim Capital Programme

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The Interim Capital Programme covers the following works: The Programme aims to address stock condition survey data, ongoing maintenance records and resident feedback to support a program of works to meet current housing standards, i.e. Decent Homes, and to reduce the ongoing burden on responsive repair services. These Works will mitigate immediate risks within and prevent further deterioration to Sandwell MBC properties on a priority basis dependent on urgency, health and safety implications and repeated reactive repairs. The Programme will include an Improvement, Retrofit and Rewires Programme, encompassing component replacement works, electrical works, retrofit and energy efficiency works and minor structural repairs required in connection with component replacements; specifically: • Component Replacement Works: • Kitchen replacements • Bathroom replacements • Window replacements • External door replacements • Roof renewals and associated works • Plastering works (including full room or whole-area plaster renewals) • Flooring renewals • Minor structural works required in connection with the Works. • Electrical Works: • Full or partial rewires • Consumer Unit replacemen

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £16,000,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins works work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar works contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 13 November 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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