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Tadea partner with Durham-based Wisemove in potential £1 million deal

County Durham-based land, energy and property consultants Wisemove has been appointed onto a Tadea-UK partnership framework in a deal potentially worth over £1 million.

Wisemove will be providing Domestic Energy Assessors, Green Deal Advisors and Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyor services for Billingham-based energy efficiency company, Tadea. The contract is set to deliver services for over 20,000 properties over the next two years.

Wisemove is the latest firm to be appointed onto Tadea’s new ‘Professional Partner Frameworks’ – a structure of partnerships which have acquired over £3.5 million of work during their first 12 weeks of operation.

This latest phase of the tender was extremely popular, with over 10 companies bidding for work.

The premise behind Tadea’s procurement frameworks is one that promotes experience, references, qualifications and the quality of a job carried out, as opposed to one focusing solely on cost.

Cost-based frameworks typically drive down price with contractors, resulting in an insulation and construction marketplace where jobs are done cheaply, and where schemes often fall down part way through, leaving customers and clients in the lurch with poorly done or part-finished jobs.

Tadea’s Managing Director, Steve Hunter, said: “2014 was a great year for Tadea-UK for a number of reasons, but none more so than the successful rollout of our ‘Professional Partner frameworks’.

“Having seen how easy it was for companies and contractors to lose out on work when simply bidding on price, the management team at Tadea worked towards a common goal – to make bidding processes fair, and to get customers and clients thinking about ‘real value’”.

“We have all seen it so many times – contractors have to bid for work with a really low price, just to stay afloat. When clients or customers solely focus on price, they are often disappointed when it turns out the cheapest contractor cannot carry out the job to their satisfaction, or they have priced the job so low they disappear half way through the job.

“Tadea’s frameworks are here to promote everything great about working with this industry, procuring contractors with the most experience, the best qualifications and the best references. Price is still a factor, but it’s a much lesser focal point than having the ability to do the job”.

Managing Director of Wisemove, Graeme Blenkinsopp, said: “When Tadea UK told me about the professional value framework idea, I was instantly hooked.

“To lead in this industry, pushing aspects of work like experience, qualifications and references over price is a bold move – it really goes against the grain.

“However, it is easy to see from the amount of work generated so far that these frameworks are proving highly successful.

“Everyone at Wisemove is thrilled to be a part of this, and the fact that we were placed first on the framework has really made us appreciate our place in the market, and our core business values.”