A team effort to help tenants
A collaboration between eight housing associations – five of them in Renfrewshire - is helping to deliver value for money for tenants and a boost for communities.
The i-Flair consortium operates across Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and East Renfrewshire and offers work to contractors in what’s known as a ‘framework agreement’.
This is an arrangement where the member housing associations can easily and quickly procure works from contractors.
The pot of work is currently worth £68million over four years.
The current i-Flair members are Barrhead, Bridgewater, Ferguslie Park, Linstone, Paisley and Williamsburgh plus Oak Tree and Cloch housing associations in Inverclyde.
The contractors involved are required to deliver community benefits on work over £100,000 .
Contracts involved are for kitchen, bathroom and heating replacement works, roofing and cladding, window and door replacement.
Also included is electrical maintenance and works, gas servicing to existing heating systems, landscape maintenance and decoration.
Paul McColgan, property services manager at Cloch Housing Association, said:“I-Flair has underlined our commitment and approach to providing apprenticeship and employment opportunities throughout Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire and Inverclyde.
“And ensuring the delivery of community benefits is a key requirement of the new framework agreement.”