Major Scottish housing provider to procure £3.7m legal services framework

Wheatley Housing Group owns or manages more than 93,700 homes, delivering services to over 210,000 people across 19 local authorities in Scotland.

It employs 2,700 people directly and a further 2,000 as joint owners of one of Scotland’s largest repairs and maintenance companies, City Building (Glasgow).

Wheatley says it intends to divide the framework into seven lots covering:

1. Commercial Contracts

2. Legal Governance & Charities

3. Legal Employment & General Civil Litigation

4. Financing

5a. Sheriff Officer Services (Central Scotland Region)

5b. Sheriff Officer Services (Dumfries and Galloway Region)

6. Property Searching & Reporting Services.

The framework will be for a period of 36 months with the option to extend for a further 12 months at the sole discretion of the Wheatley Group.