Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-01-08
Buyer: Central Housing Investment Consortia Ltd (CHIC) and Efficiency East Midlands Ltd (EEM)
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71247000 | 71315400 | 71317210 | 71324000: Quantity surveying services | 71530000: Construction consultancy services
Award criteria: Price, Quality

Technical requirements: Price
Quality
Construction consultancy services. Construction project management services. Construction management services. Supervision of building work. Building-inspection services. Quantity surveying services. Health and safety consultancy services. Client Representatives have been appointed to undertake a range of duties representing CHIC and EEM's members in their relationship with Main (Managing) Contractors and other parties in the construction of new homes. Projects will involve a range of standard house types including homes, (flats, houses, bungalows etc.) for social / affordable rent, shared ownership, market rent, for outright sale, or a combination of these and other tenures and property types and ancillary buildings which may be retail, commercial, mixed use or specialist in type or nature. The scope of the service may also include the role and services of Principal Designer under the Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015 in relation to individual projects and to act as the Client's CDM compliance advisor in relation to such projects under those Regulations.
This Contract Notice was published by Central Housing Investment Consortium Limited (‘CHIC’) and Efficiency East Midlands Limited (‘EEM’) on behalf of their members and the other organisations described below as being Authorised Users. CHIC and EEM are each incorporated as companies limited by guarantee. The Framework Agreements being procured by the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice will be entered by CHIC and EEM as the Contracting Authorities which will have undertaken and completed that procurement exercise. Any reference in this Contract Notice to Contracting Authority is deemed to be and include a reference to CHIC and EEM.
CHIC and EEM are combining their separate requirements for the purpose of the procurement exercise commenced by publication of this Contract Notice. CHIC and EEM have jointly appointed Ark Housing Consultancy LLP to conduct the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice, but neither organisation will be jointly or severally liable for the other during the conduct of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice and/or under the Framework Agreements to be awarded. CHIC and EEM will award Framework Agreements only in their own name and only on behalf of their own members (Existing, Future, or Participants as defined below).
The current members of CHIC and EEM are detailed in the contract notice. All of the current members are to be regarded as Contracting Authorities under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 for the purpose of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice and Authorised Users entitled to access and use the Framework Agreements to be awarded at conclusion of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice.
The Authorised Users of the Framework Agreements being advertised by this Contract Notice (in addition to CHIC and EEM) and entitled to access and use the Framework Agreements to be awarded at conclusion of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice are:
1. Any current CHIC and EEM Member — being an organisation which is a member of CHIC or EEM at the date of this Contract Notice and being one of the organisations identified in Annex A; and
2. Any Future Member of CHIC or EEM — being a local authority i.e. County, Metropolitan (City), District, Borough Council or a Unitary Authority in England and Wales, any Arm's Length Management Organisation (‘ALMO’) or any statutory replacement or successor organisation managed by such local authority under a Management Agreement under Section 27 of the Housing Act 1985 (or subsequent legislation) or a Registered Provider (under the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 or subsequent legislation) (and/or (in the case of EEM) is any NHS Trust or organisation, police authority, fire authority, ambulance trust, university, higher education or further education college or other public sector organisation) and in all cases being an organisation which has applied to join and has joined CHIC or EEM as a member in accordance with the constitutional documents of CHIC or EEM and in respect of which such organisation notice has been given to the economic operators that are a party to the Framework Agreements awarded at conclusion of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice that such organisation is an Authorised User. Future CHIC or EEM Members may include consortia made up of organisations which would themselves individually be a Future CHIC or EEM Member and may include any special purpose vehicle (of whatever nature) owned and controlled by the consortia members and would include in those circumstances the individual consortia members of the special purpose vehicle that own and control that special purpose vehicle; and
3. A CHIC or EEM Participant — being an organisation which is neither a current CHIC or EEM Member (as defined at 1 above) nor a Future Member of CHIC or EEM (as defined at 2 above) based within England and Wales which owns and/or maintains/manages housing stock in 1 or more geographic area in which it operates and is a local authority i.e. A County, Metropolitan (City), District or Borough Council or a Unitary Authority in England or Wales or is an Arm's Length Management Organisation (‘ALMO’) or any statutory replacement or successor organisation managed by such local authority under a management agreement under section 27 of the Housing Act 1985 (or subsequent legislation) or is a Registered Provider under the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (or subsequent legislation) (and (in the case of EEM) is any NHS Trust or organisation, police authority, fire authority, ambulance trust, university, higher education or further education college or other public sector organisation) and which is itself a Contracting Authority for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and in respect of which organisation notice has been given by CHIC or EEM to the economic operators that are a party to the Framework Agreements awarded at conclusion of the procurement exercise being advertised by this Contract Notice that such organisation is an Authorised User of the Framework Agreements, CHIC or EEM Participants may include consortia made up of organisations which would themselves individually be a CHIC Participant or an EEM Participant and may include any special purpose vehicle (of whatever nature) owned and controlled by the consortia members and would include in those circumstances the individual consortia members of that special purpose vehicle that own and control that special purpose vehicle.
Details of the Members of CHIC and EEM at the date of this Contract Notice and the current Authorised Users can be obtained from the following website address www.chicltd.co.uk and www.efficiency-em.co.uk
For the purpose of this Notice, the geographical area of local authorities and the names of those authorities are identifiable by reference to the DirectGov website at www.gov.uk
Reference to legislation in this Contract Notice includes successor and/or replacement legislation. CHIC and EEM reserves the right not to award any Framework Agreements at the end of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice or to award only part of parts of the proposed works and reserves the right not to award any 1 or more Lot.
The Authorised Users will have requirements predominantly within the West and East Midlands, East of England, Wales, the South West and South East of England but not exclusively so and may in the future have requirements in other parts of England and Wales. Authorised Users in other parts of England and Wales may also access and use the Framework Agreements to be awarded at conclusion of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice. The successful economic operators may therefore expect the Framework Agreements to be awarded at conclusion of this procurement exercise to be operated and implemented throughout England and Wales.
CHIC and EEM operate a range of existing supply chain arrangements with which successful economic operators will need to interface and will also be required to work with and interface with consultants (Architects, Employers, Agents, Principal Designers and CDM Advisors) and contractors and OSM suppliers procured as part of the wider CHIC and EEM new build solutions package.


Winner: CHIC and EEM Members
Number of bids: 23