Morrison Signs Five Deals in a Row

Morrison has just completed a quintuple of new contract signings, following a bout of successful contract wins. The contracts, which have a combined value of nearly £45million, were all completed over a two day period this week with four of the contracts mobilised on the 1 July.

Morrison, which employs over 3,000 people nationally, signed the contracts for a variety of services with clients in East Durham, Greater Manchester, Suffolk and the South East.  

In the North East, Morrison has signed a new contract worth £25million over 5 years with East Durham Homes to undertake repairs, maintenance and voids work for over 8,000 homes across East Durham. Work on the contract commenced on the 1 July. East Durham Homes is an existing client of Morrison.

On the opposite side of the country, Morrison has signed two new contracts in Greater Manchester via its joint venture company with Manchester City Council - Manchester Working Ltd. The first contract worth in excess of £3million over three years is for the provision of a comprehensive call management centre for Manchester City Council and Northwards Housing.

The call centre, which commenced operation 1 July is based at Manchester Working’s offices in the city centre. It will deal with all housing management enquiries for Manchester City Council and Northwards Housing, including repairs and maintenance and re-homing requirements. Both organisations are existing clients of Manchester Working.

The second North West contract was awarded to Manchester Working by Peak Valley Housing Association. The contract worth £2.5million over five years commenced 1 July and is for the provision of a range of repairs and maintenance services, including day to day responsive repairs, out of hours repairs and void maintenance services to the housing association’s 1,500 properties in the Hattersley area of Tameside. Peak Valley Housing Association is a subsidiary of the Contour Housing Group, which is an existing client of Manchester Working.  

In South Suffolk, Babergh District Council awarded Morrison a new contract for the provision of repairs, voids and on-call maintenance services. The contract, which is due to commence 6 July is worth £2.7 million over three years. Babergh District Council is a new client for Morrison and will be serviced by its Eastern division.

The final new contract is with Riverside Group Limited, for the provision of responsive repairs and void property re-servicing maintenance to the housing associations 5,800 properties across London, Essex, Kent and Suffolk. The contract worth £11.5 million over five years, commenced 1 July. This is the second contract Morrison has secured with the Riverside Group, following its successful tender last year with Riverside Merseyside North.  

Guy Wakeley, Chief Executive of Morrison, comments: “To sign five contracts in two days is an amazing achievement and demonstrates our commitment to moving the business forward. The successful mobilisation of four of these contracts on the same day was a huge a job and it is a testament to the dedication of everyone involved that we were able to accomplish this.

 “To date we have won seven new contracts this year and have three more due to complete by the end of July.  We are still seeing a lot of new business opportunities and have a healthy bid pipeline in place for the second half of the year. In the current economic climate social housing providers are under pressure to improve efficiencies and are increasingly looking to the private sector to meet these requirements.”