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Arbour Housing is seeking contractors for a below-threshold open competition covering planned maintenance works across housing properties in Northern Ireland, with an estimated value of €602,395.41 and a five-month contract duration.

Opening hook

Arbour Housing has opened a planned maintenance works competition for the 2026/2027 programme, covering window and door replacements, roof upgrades, electrical testing and EPC testing. The works are spread across Portadown, Lurgan, Newry, Lisburn, Hilden, Comber and Belfast, placing the opportunity firmly in the housing maintenance and building refurbishment segment. The scope is practical and property-led: 50 properties for window and door replacements, 6 properties for roof upgrades, 159 properties for fixed wire tests and 56 properties for EPC testing.

The tender sits below threshold and uses an open competition route, with publication on 8 June 2026 and a submission deadline of 25 June 2026. That gives bidders a 17-calendar-day window to assess the package, price the works and submit a compliant offer.

Opportunity overview

Contracting authority: Arbour Housing Ltd.

Official buyer name: Arbour Housing.

Country: United Kingdom.

Buyer type: Ministry or any other national or federal authority.

Main activity: Not specified.

Tender title: 2026/2027 planned maintenance works: window and door replacements, roof upgrades, electrical testing and EPC testing.

Reference number: ocds-h6vhtk-06aff5.

Procurement domain: Construction work.

Procurement topics: Construction work and building construction work.

Contract type: Works.

Procedure type: Below threshold, open competition.

Place of performance: Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon.

Works locations named in the opportunity: Portadown, Lurgan, Newry, Lisburn, Hilden, Comber and Belfast.

Estimated total value: €602,395.41.

Lot structure: Single lot.

Lot value: €602,395.41.

Contract duration: 5 months.

EU funding: No.

Status: Open.

Publication date: 8 June 2026.

Submission deadline: 25 June 2026.

Tender opening date: 25 June 2026.

Language requirements: Not specified in the available tender data.

Award basis: The contract will be awarded on a MAT basis, with full details provided in the tender documentation.

Submission portal: UK Find a Tender Service.

Contact: procurement@arbourhousing.org.

Scope of work:

• Window and door replacements to 50 properties.
• Roof upgrades to 6 properties.
• Fixed wire tests to 159 properties.
• EPC testing to 56 properties.
• Works across Portadown, Lurgan, Newry, Lisburn, Hilden, Comber and Belfast.

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Authority profile

Arbour Housing is recorded as the contracting authority for this planned maintenance works opportunity, with Arbour Housing listed as the official buyer name. The buyer country is the United Kingdom. The buyer type is recorded as a ministry or any other national or federal authority, while the main activity is not specified.

The immediate procurement is a compact works package with a five-month execution period and a value of €602,395.41. The scope is clear enough for contractors to understand the required work categories from the outset: windows and doors, roofing, fixed wire testing and EPC testing. The named locations create a geographically distributed package across several Northern Ireland settlements, rather than a single-site job.

Recorded procurement activity around this buyer provides a limited but useful context:

• Similar open tenders: 1 opportunity worth €4.7 million.
• All open tenders: 3 opportunities worth €5 million.
• Similar renewals: 18 renewals worth €281 million.
• All renewals: 24 renewals worth €284 million.
• Similar contract awards: 3 awards worth €24 million.
• All contract awards: 15 awards worth €27 million.
• Other buyers with similar projects: 4,600 buyers with a combined value of €881 billion.
• Similar prior notices: none recorded.
• All prior notices: none recorded.

This is not a large multi-year framework, but the surrounding renewal and comparable-project activity matters. Housing maintenance is rarely a one-off category in public procurement. Here, the available buyer profile records 18 similar renewals worth €281 million and 24 total renewals worth €284 million, which signals that maintenance and renewal activity form a meaningful part of the wider procurement picture around this buyer.

Competitive landscape

Available comparable award data identifies three suppliers with recorded activity. Hermix users can access the full comparable contractor list inside the platform with a free account. In this case, the available supplier set is small, and the concentration is straightforward.

Advance Accounting NI records one contract worth €16 million, with an average contract value of €16 million. Brendan Loughran Sons records one contract worth €8.2 million, with an average contract value of €8.2 million. Finnegan Contracts records one contract, but no value or average contract value is specified in the available comparable award data.

The recorded comparable award value is €24 million across 3 similar contract awards. Based on the contractor values provided, Advance Accounting NI and Brendan Loughran Sons account for the named-value portion of the comparable contractor set. The contractor-country profile is also concentrated: the United Kingdom is recorded with €24 million across 3 contracts.

The comparison does not point to a broad list of recurring comparable winners. It points instead to a small recorded contractor set, with two named suppliers carrying the known value and one additional supplier appearing by contract count only. For bidders, that distinction matters. It means the competitive landscape should not be read as a full supplier universe, but as a narrow comparable-award signal around similar recorded work.

Commercial and procedural signals

The most immediate procedural signal is the route: a below-threshold open competition. This creates a relatively direct access route for suppliers, but it also shortens the practical timeline. With publication on 8 June 2026 and the deadline on 25 June 2026, bidders have 17 calendar days to respond.

The contract value is €602,395.41 and the duration is 5 months. The work package combines several property-maintenance activities: window and door replacement, roof upgrades, fixed wire testing and EPC testing. The quantities are specified by property count: 50 for window and door replacements, 6 for roof upgrades, 159 for fixed wire tests and 56 for EPC testing.

The single-lot structure means suppliers cannot isolate one part of the requirement through a separate lot. The opportunity favours bidders able to cover, manage or coordinate the complete package across the named locations. The article should not imply subcontracting requirements where none are specified, but the lot structure itself is clear: the tender is presented as one package.

The award basis is stated as MAT, with full details available in the tender documentation. No separate price or quality weighting is specified in the available tender data. That makes the detailed procurement materials important for bid strategy, especially where the headline data does not provide the full scoring structure.

EU funding is not attached to the contract. The tender opening date is the same as the submission deadline, 25 June 2026. The contact email for the buyer is procurement@arbourhousing.org.

Strategic context

This procurement is defined less by its headline value than by the mix of works and the short response window. A supplier looking only at the estimated value might treat it as a manageable housing maintenance package. The operational reality is more specific: the works involve multiple locations, multiple work categories and quantified property counts across testing, roofing, windows and doors.

The fixed wire testing line is the largest by property count, at 159 properties. EPC testing covers 56 properties. Window and door replacements are required for 50 properties, while roof upgrades apply to 6 properties. This spread creates a package that combines planned works with inspection and testing activity. The contract duration of 5 months frames the mobilisation challenge clearly enough without needing to add assumptions not present in the data.

The buyer profile also gives the opportunity a wider procurement context. Arbour Housing has 3 open tenders worth €5 million and 15 recorded contract awards worth €27 million. Similar renewals are recorded at €281 million across 18 renewals. Those figures do not change the scope of this contract, but they do help suppliers assess whether this sits inside a broader maintenance and renewal pattern.

The competitive data is deliberately narrow. Only three comparable suppliers are identified in the available recorded award activity, and one of them appears without a stated value. That makes it useful as a signal, not a full market map. Hermix users analysing this opportunity can go deeper into buyer activity, supplier history and comparable contractor records inside the platform, instead of treating a public tender notice as the whole story. The public notice tells you what is open. The procurement intelligence layer helps you decide whether the opportunity deserves bid capacity.

Practical takeaways for bidders

This tender suits:

• Contractors with housing maintenance, refurbishment or planned works capability across occupied and residential property environments.
• Suppliers able to deliver window and door replacement, roof upgrade, fixed wire testing and EPC testing within a single works package.
• Firms able to work across the named locations: Portadown, Lurgan, Newry, Lisburn, Hilden, Comber and Belfast.
• Bidders comfortable with a below-threshold open competition and a 17-calendar-day submission window.

Critical attention points:

• The contract has an estimated value of €602,395.41 and a five-month duration.
• The deadline is 25 June 2026, with the same date recorded for tender opening.
• The works include window and door replacements to 50 properties, roof upgrades to 6 properties, fixed wire tests to 159 properties and EPC testing to 56 properties.
• The tender is structured as one lot, so bidders should qualify their ability to cover the complete planned maintenance requirement.
• The award basis is MAT, with full details in the tender documentation.
• EU funding is not attached to the opportunity.
• The language requirement is not specified in the available tender data.
• Comparable award activity identifies three recorded suppliers: Advance Accounting NI, Brendan Loughran Sons and Finnegan Contracts.

Conclusions

Arbour Housing’s planned maintenance tender is a 5-month works opportunity worth €602,395.41, covering window and door replacements, roof upgrades, fixed wire testing and EPC testing across multiple Northern Ireland locations. The 17-calendar-day response window, single-lot structure and quantified property counts make this a practical qualification exercise for contractors that can deliver the full package rather than only one workstream. Create your free account today at https://hermix.com/sign-up/ and win more public contracts with the data-driven approach that helps companies consistently succeed in B2G sales across Europe.