Under the seven year contract, Mears will carry our repairs and improvements to the council’s north housing region of 8,000 homes.
Bob Holt, Chairman of Mears, said: “The size of the Mears social housing bid pipeline for contract tenders remains extremely healthy at £3.5 billion and we continue to target customers who share our view of long term partnering arrangements.”
The latest deal, which can be extended for a further three years, puts Mears firmly in the top tier of specialist social housing maintenance contractors.
Under the chairmanship of Holt, Mears has shrugged off recessionary fears and grown into a contractor with 11,000 staff providing maintenance and repairs services to 500,000 homes nationwide.