believe housing Design Services Dynamic Purchasing System

Believe Housing Limited (believe housing) is one of the largest housing associations in the north east of England.

As a Community Benefit Society with charitable status, we are the landlord of almost 18,000 homes stretching from the very rural west, to the hustle and bustle of Durham city centre, and the magnificent coastline in the east.

With our diverse setting, we place a great amount of emphasis on providing a local housing service to fit local housing needs.

We exist to create a place where everyone feels they belong by challenging the assumptions of the past and present. It is important to us that as an organisation we strive to drive change while encouraging our customers to expect more. This will challenge us to achieve more, by being more ambitious, more vibrant and more inclusive.

This concept is reflected in our vision: ‘We believe in life without barriers’.

If everyone expects more they can achieve more and we can transform lives together. It is this power of ‘more’ that will let people realise what is possible – change perceptions, raise aspirations and create inclusive, vibrant communities.

And in a life without barriers, anything is possible if you believe.

The Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) is for the provision of design Services to believe housing. Individual contracts will be advertised via mini competition under the DPS by the group communications team.

believe housing has its own visual identity which require a design function to maintain their on and offline presence and the group will continue to maintain five individual identities for the foreseeable future. Due to the demands of the marketing and communications sector, in terms of corporate branding, PR, design for traditional offline media, website platforms and the ever-changing face of social media, the group’s design requests are becoming more varied and require a dynamic and flexible solution.

All contracts called off from this DPS will be exclusively subject to believe housings terms and conditions which will be issued with each call off.

The DPS will remain open for a period of 10 years, during this time any interested supplier may submit a return by completing the 'Compliance Questionnaire' attached to this notice. All suppliers who meet these requirements will be admitted and will receive all mini-competitions issued under this DPS. Should a supplier be unsuccessful they may re-submit once the reasons for rejection have been rectified.

This notice will remain live for the duration of the DPS, all returns submitted within the first 30 days will be evaluated and the suppliers informed of their success or rejection within 10 days from 7th July 2017. Returns may be submitted at anytime during the life of the DPS, any returns submitted after the first 30 days will be evaluated and the supplier informed of the result within 10 working days.

full tender documents can be found at: https://www.in-tendhost.co.uk/countydurhamhousinggroup/aspx/Home