NE Procurement (NEP), is a consortium of social housing providers located in the North East of England. NEP are establishing a four year non-binding framework agreement for the provision of materials for external works on their properties. Materials supply will predominantly be required in the North East of England and North Yorkshire but may be required in other areas of the UK. The materials are required for works that are primarily planned maintenance and investment programmes, however it is envisaged that materials may be required for other activities.
The purpose of this procurement process was to establish a framework of materials suppliers in respect of:
Lot 1: External Wall Insulation;
Lot 2: Loft Insulation.
The works that these materials are required for are likely to include Eco & Green Deal related activities along with any similar initiatives that may arise over the period of this framework.
The following contracting authorities will be entitled to call off materials under the NEP Framework Agreement as and when required, along with contractors, other division and companies associated with NEP:
NEP members (both current and future) including, but not limited to:
Coast and Country www.cch-online.org.uk
Housing Hartlepool www.housinghartlepool.org.uk
Three Rivers Housing Group www.threerivershousing.co.uk
Durham City Homes www.durham.gov.uk
Dale and Valley Housing www.daleandvalleyhomes.co.uk
Your Homes Newcastle www.yhn.org.uk
South Tyneside Homes www.southtynesidehomes.org.uk
Homes for Northumberland www.hfn.uk.com
Derwentside Homes www.derwentsidehomes.co.uk
Home Group www.homegroup.org.uk
Fabrick Housing Group – consisting of Erimus Housing and Tees Valley Housing www.fabrickgroup.co.uk
Tristar Homes www.tristarhomes.co.uk
Cestria Housing www.cestria.org
Riverside www.riverside.org.uk
It is intended that the resulting Framework Agreement will be capable of being used by other Contracting Authorities in the United Kingdom. This procurement is being undertaken by NEP for the benefit of its members as set out in Annex A (without any obligation for them to participate) and for the benefit of any Social housing provider that may fall within the geographical remit of the United Kingdom.
Social housing provider for this purpose means any provider of social housing and includes registered (housing) providers, local authorities, local government ALMOs, unitary authorities and third sector organisations / registered charities.
For the purpose of this procurement, the geographical area of local authorities are identifiable by reference to the Direct Gov website at http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/Localcouncils/index.htm and a full list of all current Registered Providers can be found at www.homesandcommunities.co.uk.
The contracting authorities listed or referred to above have requirements predominantly within the North East and North Yorkshire region of England including; Northumberland, Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland, Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool, Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar and Cleveland and Middlesbrough.
Applicants should note that, under the Framework Agreement, none of the contracting authorities that are entitled to use the Framework Agreement shall be under any obligation to do so.
Materials will be called off from this framework by contractors working on behalf of NEP members. Please note that the award of the Framework Agreement will not constitute any guarantee of work.
The Frameworks entered into will be managed by neprocurement and all members and partners, either current or future, will be entitled to allow contractors working on relevant external works to call off individual contracts pursuant to the Framework Agreement.
Any such contract will be held, managed and supervised by the individual contractor making the call-off.
Valueworks are NEP's chosen supply chain integrator and have been engaged to assist NEP in carrying out this procurement exercise.