Consultancy Services

This opportunity has been listed by LHC on behalf of:

Scottish Procurement Alliance (SPA)

Welsh Procurement Alliance (WPA)

South-West Procurement Alliance (SWPA)

Consortium Procurement Construction (CPC)

LHC

This procurement exercise is to establish a replacement to our successful H1 WS1 Housing Consultancy Framework.

Building on our existing H1 framework, with CS1 we are expanding the scope to include a wider range of consultancy services to offer our clients.

The framework is broken down into 4 workstreams which are:

Professional Consultancy,

Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Consultancy,

Asset Management Consultancy,

Environmental Consultancy.

Bidders should note that the lots contained within Workstream 1 – Professional Services (Lots 1 to 15) are only available for the geographical areas of Scotland, South-West England, and Wales. This is because LHC already have a consultancy framework in place which covers a similar scope to that of Workstream 1 – Professional Services that is available within our North and Central England and London and South East England regional areas. Please refer to the ITT document for further details

LHC is a joint committee of local authorities acting as a central purchasing body on behalf of Scottish Procurement Alliance. Thanks to their ongoing and collective feedback and input into the development of this framework and given the reach and scale of their portfolio, the framework is both designed and anticipated to support the vast majority of requirements. Consequently, other contracting authorities that were not specifically consulted in the development of this framework may nevertheless also deem the framework to offer a value for money procurement solution for their own requirements and may also use the framework.

As of the date of publication of this notice our frameworks may be used by all contracting authorities in Scotland as defined by the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 and as listed on https:// www.scottishprocurement.scot/who-we-work-with/, including, but not limited to Registered social landlords (RSL's), tenant management organisations (TMOs) and arm’s length management organisations (ALMOs), local authorities and any subsidiaries and joint-venture vehicles of those local authorities, health authorities, councils, boards and trusts, publicly funded schools, universities and further education establishments, colleges, police forces, fire and rescue services or registered charities.

Bidders must beware that LHC clients may add community benefit requirements in their call-off contracts from this Framework including but not limited to:

• to generate employment and training opportunities for priority groups;
• vocational training;
• to up-skill the existing workforce;
• equality and diversity initiatives;
• to make sub-contracting opportunities available to SMEs, the third sector and supported businesses;
• supply-chain development activity;
• to build capacity in community organisations;
• educational support initiatives.

Please use the following link to access the tender on LHC's eTendering portal.

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lhc