Homes England launches new framework

Homes England, the government’s housing delivery organisation, is launching a new framework which will help speed up the delivery of new homes.

Procurement through the new Multidisciplinary and Technical Services Frameworks, will broaden the range of technical and design services available to support Homes England’s and other public bodies’ work to accelerate the supply of new homes, with the frameworks providing direct access to the professional, technical and design services needed to prepare land for housing development.

Using the new frameworks will provide users with an OJEU compliant and efficient means to procure technical and design services.

Stephen Kinsella, Director for Land at Homes England said: “This will be the fifth generation of our multidisciplinary framework and our biggest yet, demonstrating Homes England’s expanded role in bringing together land and expertise to speed up the building of new homes.

“We want to create strong working relationships with a wider range of companies who can provide valuable technical advice and design expertise to help accelerate housing development, deliver value for money and great places to live.”

The new frameworks have been introduced to support the government’s ambition of delivering 300,000 homes a year by the middle of the next decade. Other public sector bodies will be able to use the frameworks, boosting the government plan to access developable land across the country, by providing the infrastructure needed.

With an estimated value of £150M, these frameworks will replace the current Homes England’s framework that expires in November 2018. They will act as a one-stop-shop to procure a range of integrated technical and design services from a single source. Homes England has operated this arrangement successfully in the past, which will enable the organisation to continue to work with companies and their specialist sub-consultant teams.

The Multidisciplinary Framework will also be supplemented by a range of specialist frameworks to meet specific future needs and enable Homes England to engage directly with a broader range of companies. These specialist frameworks will consist of:

• Five regionally based frameworks to provide planning, masterplanning and consultation services to help obtain planning permission
• A project, cost management and development monitoring framework
• Specialist site survey and asbestos frameworks to provide very specific services towards developing  brownfield land.

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