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, dynamic purchasing systems, 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.

PfH is administered by Inprova Limited and is headquartered in the North West of England with over 20 years of expertise and experience offering a complete procurement solutions package across outsourcing, technology and consultancy. By integrating procurement services and technology, Inprova operates as a delivery partner, supporting business performance improvement for the public sector.

Procurement for Housing have established a Framework Agreement for the provision Total Waste Management & Technical Services, requiring service providers to work on national basis across the United Kingdom to provide removal of construction and office related waste streams. Tenderers are capable of providing technical and compliance support and provide waste related reporting to support customers drive environmental, economic and operational improvements.

The purpose of this new framework agreement (“this Framework Agreement”) is to ensure we can provide a waste management solution for Members of PfH in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and other public bodies permitted to use this Framework Agreement who require the provision of Services.

This framework agreement required tenderers to be capable of providing total waste management and technical and compliance support services. The supplier is required to provide a fully auditable total waste management provision across all waste streams within housing, construction, education, defence, and highways, including, hazardous and non-hazardous waste streams. Service providers were required to be able to supply and end-to-end solution and are responsible for ensuring the producer has access to all compliance documentation and waste reporting to ensure a fully auditable service provision.

The Framework Agreement is structured into a single lot – Total Waste Management and Technical Services.

Tenderers are required to provide services including but not limited to:

a) Total Waste Management, including but not limited to;

b) All waste streams across housing, construction, education, defence, and highways industries; and

c) Reactive (ad hoc), planned (routine/scheduled), fixed site services (depot or new build), direct tipping facilities, kerbside/wait and load services and site clearance and collection services, such as fly tipping removal services, bulky collections and POP's

d) Management Information, waste reporting and compliance documentation in line with each waste stream and EA guidelines

e) Technical and compliance services, pertaining to service improvements (environmental, economic, operational and compliance).