16-086 Void Security, Clearance & Cleans

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC) currently has 21000 domestic council properties. Approximately 2000 of these properties are vacated by tenants each year and any such vacated properties are termed 'void' and often require securing by means of metal grills or nets to windows and doors, and various clearing and cleaning services performed to their interiors and exteriors prior to them being re-let. Such cleaning services include, for example; clearing property interiors, outhouses and garages of unwanted items such as furniture, floor coverings and white goods; de-infestation works such as fleas/bed bugs and vermin; needle searches; clearing gardens of unwanted items. Additionally the contractor may also be required to undertake other similar services from time to time, for example clearing and environmental cleaning of properties following evictions