The procurement of new Multidisciplinary and Technical Services Frameworks has been announced by Homes England.
It is hoped this will broaden the range of technical and design services available to support Homes England’s and other public bodies’ work to accelerate the supply of new homes.
These frameworks will provide “direct access to professional, technical and design services, intended to build the working relationships needed within service- providers to prepare land for housing development and disposal to the market”.
Stephen Kinsella, director for land at Homes England commented on the announcement: “This will be the fifth generation of our multidisciplinary frame- work 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.”
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 in the past, and 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 special- ist frameworks to meet specific future needs. These specialist frameworks will consist of:
• Five regionally based frameworks to provide planning, masterplanning and consultation services to help 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 develop- ment monitoring framework
• Specialist site survey and asbestos frame- works to provide very specific services and prepare brownfield land
Valued at £150m, the new framework will replace its former iteration that expires in November 2018.