Following a two-year procurement process, North Lanarkshire Council (NLC) awarded Mears the North Lanarkshire Housing and Corporate Maintenance and Investment Works contract, covering 37,000 social homes and 1,200 council buildings, earlier this year.
Estimated to be worth up to £1.8bn over the duration of the contract, this is the largest contract of its type to be awarded to a single provider in the sector. The contract will run for up to 12 years with an annual value, once fully mobilised, of over £125m.
Working in partnership, we’ll support North Lanarkshire to deliver its ambition around shared priorities which includes delivering long-term growth, prosperity and inclusion across its local communities and providing an innovative approach and end-to-end customer solution to enhance service delivery and social value at scale.
Our teams in Scotland have been providing a well-run and robust housing maintenance service to NLC for over a decade. This put us in a strong position to be awarded a contract of this scale. The new contract, which started in July 2024, covers core services such as reactive and planned maintenance, compliance, and gas servicing across NLC housing and corporate properties, as well as a programme of planned investment works.
Through this contract we have been able to not only retain 500 existing jobs within our North Lanarkshire branch, but it also creates significant opportunities for new local jobs and apprenticeships.
“We are committed to delivering 660 new apprenticeships over the contract term, which will be one of the largest apprenticeship programmes of its kind in Scotland and builds on the huge success in this space over the life of the existing contract. This will make an enormous difference to the lives of so many young people, while at the same time future-proofing our workforce, helping to contribute to the much-needed skills required in our industry.”
Lucas Critchley Chief Executive Officer Mears Group
Strategy in action
- Properties 37,000 social homes
- 1,200 council buildings
- Employees 500
- Apprenticeship opportunities 660 over the contract term
