The link below states that three quarters of housing providers do not think their tower blocks have been assessed correctly.
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/tenancies/landlords-admit-high-rise-fire-risk/6516423.articleSo who’s to blame?
1. Assessment companies carrying out assessments for next to nothing?
2. The F&RS Inspectors for not policing them properly?
3. The housing providers who want their assessments done for next to nothing?
In most tender contract awards the client chooses the contractor on 60% cost/40% quality; so what do they expect?
In a recent example a local authority tendered for 2,081 assessments to be carried out in residential properties; the contract was awarded on the following criteria.
INFORMATION ON VALUE OF CONTRACT
Initial estimated (by the housing authority) total value of the contract
Value 312 150 GBP
Total final value of the contract
Value 154 990 GBP
This equates to around £74 per assessment; these housing authorities want their assessments to be carried out for next to nothing then complain when they aren’t suitable or sufficient.