PfH Temporary Accommodation and Decant Services

Concepts

• accommodation management
• pfh
• yes
• procurement for housing
• pfh temporary accommodation
• accommodation services
• wide range of services
• temporary accommodation needs of housing organisations
• full range of inclusive accommodation
• pfh members

Location

United Kingdom:

Description

Established in 2004, Procurement for Housing (PfH) is a national procurement consortium dedicated to the social housing sector and supported by the National Housing Federation (NHF), Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) and HouseMark. Collectively our Members manage more than 75% of UK’ social housing stock, with PfH helping them to achieve efficiency savings using a wide range of services including framework agreements, spend analyses, strategy reviews, consolidated billing and comprehensive reporting. PfH is a contracting authority under Regulation 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (“PCR 2015”) and a central purchasing body under regulation 37 PCR 2015.

Total Quantity or Scope

Procurement for Housing (PfH) is seeking to establish a Framework Agreement for the provision of Accommodation and Decant Managed solutions. PfH wish to appoint a panel of experienced suppliers to a single lot to carry out services to PfH Members in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland and the wider public sector (“Contracting Authorities”) permitted to use the framework. The successful suppliers will be required to provide a full range of inclusive Accommodation and Decant services. This will include the core provision of a 24 hours a day 365 days a year accommodation vetting, search and booking service, in addition to the hire and or purchase of relevant associated provisions. The successful suppliers will be required to demonstrate previous experience in dealing with temporary accommodation needs of housing organisations, local authorities and similar bodies, including dealing with emergency situations. The framework will be for an initial period of three years with an option to extend for a further 12 months. PfH expects to appoint three suppliers to the framework but reserves the right to award a greater of fewer number of organisations, depending on the bids received.

Renewal Options

The framework will be for an initial period of three years with an option to extend for a further 12 months.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 98341100 - Accommodation management services
• 98341000 - Accommodation services
• 55250000 - Letting services of short-stay furnished accommodation
• 55110000 - Hotel accommodation services
• 39150000 - Miscellaneous furniture and equipment
• 39220000 - Kitchen equipment, household and domestic items and catering supplies
• 39300000 - Miscellaneous equipment
• 39310000 - Catering equipment
• 39312000 - Food-preparation equipment
• 44410000 - Articles for the bathroom and kitchen
• 39144000 - Bathroom furniture
• 39140000 - Domestic furniture
• 39143000 - Bedroom, dining room and living-room furniture
• 60000000 - Transport services (excl. Waste transport)
• 60120000 - Taxi services
• 60170000 - Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver
• 79920000 - Packaging and related services
• 30199770 - Luncheon vouchers

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Renewals are available.

Other Information

Please refer to www.pfh.co.uk for additional information. PfH is administered by Inprova Limited and is headquartered in the North West of England with over 20 years of expertise and experience offering a complete procurement solutions package across outsourcing, technology and consultancy. By integrating procurement services and technology, Inprova operates as a delivery partner, supporting business performance improvement for the public sector. PfH is seeking suitably experienced suppliers to be appointed to a framework to manage our members' Temporary Accommodation and Decant requirements. ** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** This Framework may be used by any contracting authority listed in or referred to in the FTS Notice. This includes: All current members of PfH at the time of the FTS notice for this procurement; Any registered provider of social housing (or Welsh registered social landlord ,or Scottish registered social registered social landlord) that becomes a member of PfH during the period of the Framework Agreement; Any public authority (as defined in the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for public authorities in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and UK-wide public authorities based in Scotland, or as defined in the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 for Scottish public authorities) that becomes a member of PfH at any time during the period of the Framework Agreement; Any local authority (as defined in the Local Government Act 1972 for public authorities in England and Wales or as defined in the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 for Scottish local authorities or as defined in the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 for local authorities in Northern Ireland) that becomes a member of PfH at any time during the period of the Framework Agreement; Any housing Arm's Length Management Organisation (ALMO) that becomes a member of PfH during the period of the Framework Agreement; Any wholly owned subsidiaries of any of the above Organisations; educational establishments and any other contracting authority listed on the following page of the PfH website : http://procurementforhousing.co.uk/permissible-users/ at the time of the FTS notice for this procurement. NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the myTenders Web Site at https://www.mytenders.co.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=229304. The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.mytenders.co.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx. Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems. (MT Ref:229304)