Procurement For Housing - Compliance Solutions Framework

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.

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.

A framework for the provision of Access Control, Asbestos, Damp and Mould, Electrical Testing, Lifts and Legionella including: surveys, testing/analytical services, removal, remedial, maintenance, and consultancy services for their member organisations to call-off from.

1) Bidders may be excluded if they are in any of the situations referred to in Reg.58 of the PCSR 2015.

2) If required by the member state, bidders must be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers of their country.

3) Bidders must state the amount of the contract they expect to subcontract.

4) Quality assurance. Bidders are required to hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third-party certificate of compliance in

accordance with BS EN ISO 9001 or can demonstrate that they have robust equivalent quality standards in accordance with Document 2 of

this tender.

5) Health and Safety. Bidders are required to hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third-party certificate of compliance in

accordance with ISO 45001 or has within the last 12 months met the assessment requirements of a construction related scheme in registered

membership of the safety schemes in procurement (SSIP) or; can demonstrate that they have robust equivalent health and safety standards

in accordance with Document 2 of this tender.

6) Environmental. Bidders are required to hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third-party certificate of compliance with

ISO 14001 or can demonstrate it has robust equivalent environmental standards in accordance with Document 2 of this tender.

This Framework may be used by any contracting authority listed in or referred to in the

FTS notice. This includes:

— all current members of Procurement for Housing at the time of the OJEU notice for this procurement,

— any registered provider of social housing (or Welsh registered social landlord, or Northern Ireland registered

social landlord) that becomes a member of Procurement for Housing during the period of the Framework,

— any public authority (as defined in the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for public authorities) in England,

Wales and Northern Ireland, that becomes a member of Procurement for Housing at any time during the period

of the Framework,

— any local authority (as defined in the Local Government Act 1972 for public authorities in England, Wales and

Northern Ireland) that becomes a member of Procurement for Housing at any time during the period of the Framework,

— any housing Arm’s Length Management Organisation that becomes a member of Procurement for Housing

during the period of the Framework,

— any wholly owned subsidiary of any of the above organisations, and

— any other contracting authority listed on the following page of the Procurement for Housing website,

— http:// procurementforhousing.co.uk/permissible-users/ at the time of the OJEU notice for this procurement.