Vehicle Leasing & Associated Services

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

PfH has tendered for a framework agreement for Vehicle Leasing and Associated Services. Tenders were invited from suitably experienced organisations that could provide the range of services and meet the minimum selection criteria as set out in the tender documents.

The Framework will be awarded for an initial period of 4 years

This will include but is not limited to

-the provision, installation and on-going management of GPS navigation

-integrated hands-free phone,

-wireless safety communications,

-automatic driving assistance systems,

-fleet reporting tools,

-vehicle tracking,

driving style management,

--fleet management and fuel management and ensuring that all equipment complies with current Health & Safety regulations and meets any other necessary regulatory compliance.

The provision of telematics services may also need to incorporate but not be limited to;

-Satellite navigation;

-Real-time tracking devices & software;

-Bluetooth kits;

-Parking aids, sensors;

-Reversing cameras;

-Dashboard cameras;

-Panic buttons;

-Mobile handsfree kits;

-CCTV (e.g. within rear space of vehicle);

-Driver style technology & software;

-Online web portals for fleet managers – standard & bespoke;

-Mobile applications for fleet managers;

-Hard wired units;

-Plug-in units;

-Driver ID;

-Data archive 6/12 months data;

-Configurable dashboards;

-Driver feedback (alerts);

-Navigation with messaging functionality;

-Back office systems integration;

-Driver behavioural systems.

Suppliers will be expected to cover the whole of the UK