Low Carbon Offsite MMC Housing Construction - South West DPS

Concepts

• construction work
• london housing consortium
• central purchasing body for the south west procurement alliance
• exeter
• south west dps
• south west
• potential establishment of a dps agreement
• south west procurement alliance
• dps application process
• construction of residential dwellings

Location

South West England:

Description

The London Housing Consortium (LHC) (acting as the Central Purchasing Body for the South West Procurement Alliance (SWPA)), are consulting on the potential establishment of a DPS Agreement for Construction of residential dwellings (including any associated community buildings and facilities) incorporating low energy offsite system across the South West. The DPS is aimed at delivering offsite / MMC housing, apartments, care homes and multi-occupancy dwellings including zero carbon solutions. This DPS application process will run in conjunction with a new digital toolkit from Constructing Modern Methods (CMM). CMM was developed as a concept in a previous piece of research funded by the Local Government Association and conducted with Bristol City Council (BCC) and Bristol Housing Festival (BHF) to understand what resources might make the widescale adoption of modern methods of construction and offsite housing solutions more feasible.

Lot Division

Renewal Options

Whilst an end date has been entered within this notice due to this being required by system settings, the advertised intention is that DPS will operate perpetually. In addition SWPA reserves the right to amend the scope and/or terminate and not renew or terminate and renew the DPS.

CPV Codes

• 45000000 - Construction work

Indicators

• This is a recurring contract.
• Renewals are available.
• Staff qualifications are relevant.
• It is a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for many bidders.

Other Information

Candidates will need to register as a supplier on SWPA's eTendering portal, ProContract before being able to apply to the DPS. Once registered candidates will need to ensure they are logged in and click the appropriate DPS link from the opportunity list by filtering 'organisations' and selecting LHC. Once they have entered the Low Carbon Offsite Construction DPS the candidate should click on 'register interest in this opportunity' ** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** South West Procurement Alliance (SWPA), the South West hub of the London Housing Consortium (LHC) Group has long standing experience in offering frameworks and other procurement solutions for the public sector and has in recent years built up a portfolio of expertise in MMC/ Offsite solutions through traditional construction and MMC Offsite frameworks (mmc.lhc.gov.uk ). Working in partnership with CMM and developing a DPS provides the opportunity for many new and emerging MMC/Offsite suppliers to engage with public sector organisations. It is hoped that these will come forward from the SW region supporting and boosting the local economy. This is a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the construction of residential dwellings (and any associated community buildings and facilities) incorporating low energy offsite systems across the South West for the public sector. The DPS is aimed at delivering offsite housing, apartments, care homes and multi-occupancy dwellings including zero carbon solutions. … In April 2020, a consortium of partners led by YTKO and including BCC, BHF, BRE and 9 leading modular housing companies were awarded an innovate UK grant for their project, 'Enabling Housing Innovation for Inclusive Growth'. CMM is one of the direct outcomes of that Innovate UK project. Further information about the Innovate UK project is available here https://westofengland.ytko.com/constructing-modern-methods/ CMM offers an innovative solution to the acceleration of offsite, modular housing by allowing suppliers to bring their solutions within the DPS through a robust and quality assured database. This digital tool from CMM was designed specifically for and importantly with local authorities to provide an outcome-led procurement solution. The digital toolkit is key to achieving the projected rate of uptake in areas of MMC and offsite housing. It allows users to optioneer against a full spectrum of systems, organisations and performance options. This empowers the decision makers within local authorities, housing associations etc. at the call-off stage, helping narrow down the market to a number of possible options. These options are the confidently based on local policy and project specific criteria. Selected suppliers will then be invited to tender via a mini-competition.