Social Housing Emerging Disruptors (SHED) 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.

In June 2021 the Government issued a new National Procurement Strategy setting out several strategic priorities for public procurement. One of those priorities is ‘social value’ which includes a number of initiatives, including ‘improving supplier diversity, innovation and resilience’ by:

• creating a more diverse supply chain to deliver the contract, which will better support start-ups, small and medium-sized businesses and VCSEs in doing business on public sector contracts;
• increasing innovation and the use of disruptive technologies and business models throughout the supply chain, to deliver lower cost and/or higher quality goods and services, and encourage the wider adoption of innovation;
• contributing to the development of scalable and future-proofed new methods to modernise delivery and increase productivity.

PfH wishes to support its Members to meet this national priority by creating a framework of innovation that will permit start-ups, small and medium sized businesses and the voluntary sector as well as established larger companies to offer their innovative products and services to the public sector.

The Framework Agreement will operate on a national basis, providing an offering suitable for members of PfH in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and other public bodies permitted to use this Framework Agreement.

PfH has sought tenders from organisations who believe they have an innovative product or service, that will deliver clear benefits to the social housing market and the wider public sector.