Tender: Windsor Estate External Redecoration and Refurbishment – Windsor Castle, Royal Mews, Home Park & Hampton Court Paddocks

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The Royal Household is seeking a supplier for planned external redecoration and refurbishment works across the Windsor Estate, covering Windsor Castle, Windsor Royal Mews, Home Park (including Frogmore House, stores, gardener’s buildings and conservation workshops) and Hampton Court Royal Paddocks. The scope includes external redecorations of previously decorated surfaces, cleaning of external elements such as rainwater goods, full surface preparation including rubbing down and stripping to bare metal/timber where required, timber and metal repairs and overhauls or replacements of doors, windows, frames, railings and gates, masonry repairs including repointing and piecing in matching stone, thermal upgrades by draft proofing and supply/fit of secondary glazing, provision of scaffolding, towers and mobile working platforms with debris netting/boarding, site housekeeping and waste clearance, and acting as Principal Contractor for health and safety (including CDM duties). The contract is a four-year framework split into two lots (Lot A: two contractors for Windsor Castle and Windsor Royal Mews; Lot B: one contractor for Home Park and Hampton Court Royal Paddocks), with works allocated each financial year in phased areas and contractors required to arrange access with residents, provide security-cleared staff, escort subcontractors, and programme works around regular events which may require short-notice changes.