Social Housing Grafton, through its businesses such as Buildbase and Jacksons, has extensive partnering experience in the social housing field. It has won numerous contracts with housing associations, trusts and local authorities, and provides a diverse range of supply solutions from dedicated in-house stores facilities to supply-only agreements.
With a range of over 60,000 products Grafton is able to deliver value-added products and solutions to meet the needs of day-to-day reactive maintenance, as well as the demands of quick turnaround of void properties and the specification of decent homes materials.
Grafton has thorough experience of the OJEU process and supplying through a number of frameworks.
Partnering Stores Weaver Vale Housing TrustWeaver Vale Housing Trust chose Grafton as its new partner using the Buildbase brand to provide a more effective repairs service for customers in West Cheshire.
The partnership has seen the opening of a new dedicated stores facility at Northwich Buildbase in Wincham, which manages the supply of all materials to the trust’s property services teams.
By obtaining all materials directly from Buildbase, the trust’s 115 repairs and maintenance trade staff will save time and money sourcing materials, enabling them to provide an improved service to residents. The facility also employs three dedicated Buildbase stores personnel whose role is solely to assist trust staff.
Graham Roberts, director of Property Services at Weaver Vale Housing Trust, said: “The trust is delighted to open its new on-site stores at Buildbase. The facility will enable us to provide our customers with a fast, high quality, and more cost efficient repairs and maintenance service.
“The new service will also benefit the commercial, public sector and private individual customers of our subsidiary building company, Weaver Horizons."
“Buildbase takes the burden out of the daily ordering of materials with multiple suppliers, particularly as we have moved many of our third party suppliers to Buildbase as they manage the order requests on our behalf to a core list arrangement.”