The frameworks will provide direct access to
professional, technical and design services, building
the strong working relationships needed with these
service providers to prepare land for housing
development and disposal to the market.
The frameworks will provide Homes England, and other
public sector bodies, with an OJEU compliant and
efficient means to procure technical and design
services, helping support the government’s ambition to
deliver 300,000 homes a year by the middle of the next
decade.
Stephen Kinsella, Director for Land at Homes England
said: “This will be the fifth generation of our
multidisciplinary framework and our biggest yet,
demonstrating Homes England’s expanded role in bringing
together land and expertise to speed up the building of
new homes.
“We want to create strong working relationships with a
wider range of companies who can provide valuable
technical advice and design expertise to help
accelerate housing development, deliver value for money
and great places to live.”
Valued at £150m, the new frameworks with replace Homes
England’s current framework that expires in November
2018.
Homes England will make the frameworks available to
other public sector bodies, for example local
authorities, to help them procure specialist technical
services and develop homes for their residents. Our
frameworks have been used by over 300 other public
bodies.
The new frameworks will have an underpinning
Multidisciplinary Framework, which will act as a one
stop shop to procure a range of integrated technical
and design services from a single source. Homes England
has operated this arrangement successfully in the past,
which will enable the organisation to continue to work
with companies and their specialist sub-consultant
teams.
The Multidisciplinary Framework will also be
supplemented by a range of specialist frameworks to
meet specific future needs and enable Homes England to
engage directly with a broader range of companies.
These specialist frameworks will consist of:
- Five regionally based frameworks to provide
planning, masterplanning and consultation services to
help us obtain planning permission on Homes England
sites. This will enable Homes England’s regional
delivery teams to engage directly with consultants with
sound regional knowledge and experience.
- A project, cost management and development
monitoring framework which will support Homes England’s
investment activities and also provide more general
project and cost management advice aligned to housing
development and regeneration.
- Specialist site survey and asbestos frameworks to
provide very specific services to enable Homes England
to quickly prepare brownfield land for development.
The Multidisciplinary and Technical Frameworks
supplement the services provided by Homes England’s
£150m Property Framework and our £8bn Housing
Development Framework Delivery Partner Panel 3 (DPP3).
