Efficiency East Midlands Ltd (EEM) is a procurement consortia which establishes and manages a range of procurement routes for our members including frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems. Our members include Social Housing Providers, Local Authorities, Universities, NHS Trusts and regional Police Forces.

EEM wishes to invite applications from suitably qualified organisations to carry out 1 or all of the following: supply, delivery, installation and service and maintenance for domestic and commercial white goods (appliances).

EEM are looking to establish a dynamic purchasing system (DPS) to engage a range of providers that are able to deliver a diverse range of products and services for domestic and commercial white goods. Submissions to join the DPS can be made at any time and will remain open for application for 5 years and will operate through the Geometra Portal.

EEM is looking to create a list of approved contractors who can deliver a number of or all of the following elements of work during the course of the dynamic purchasing system:

Domestic white goods:

— supply only,

— supply and installation,

— service and maintenance,

— recycling services,

— delivery.

Commercial and semi-commercial white goods:

— supply only,

— supply and installation,

— service and maintenance,

— recycling services,

— dosing and detergents,

— delivery.

The geographical categories for this DPS are set out in to regions and broken down to county level. Suppliers can select all geographical categories for a national coverage or narrow down their selection to a county level.

The procurement process will be run in accordance with the following programme:

First mini tenders released from: 5.8.2019.

DPS end date: 30.7.2024.

The organisations that are successful in being awarded a place on the DPS will be given a ‘pre-approved’ status and will be invited to submit a formal bid when EEM Members have a requirement to contract the work stream associated with this DPS. Each application to join the DPS will be reviewed by EEM to ensure the minimum criteria for entry onto the DPS is met. The minimum criteria for entry onto the DPS are detailed in online supplier selection questionnaire evaluation.

EEM Members are currently located throughout England and Wales and as such opportunities arising from this DPS will be in various geographical areas. For a full update list of the current EEM members please visit www.eem.org.uk

Please note that the total potential value stated in II.2.6) is for the full 5-year DPS period and takes into consideration that the EEM membership may grow over the life of the DPS period. No guarantees are given for values and volumes.

This DPS is being established by Efficiency East Midlands Ltd (‘EEM’) on behalf of their members and the other organisations described below as being Authorised Users. The following Contracting Authorities will be entitled to agree and award contracts through the DPS system:

1) Any Member of EEM. A full list of current Members is available at www.eem.org.uk

2) Any future Member of EEM, and in all cases being an organisation which has applied to join EEM in accordance with the applicable constitutional documents;

3) An EEM participant being an organisation which is neither a current or EEM Member (as defined at 1 above) nor a Future Member of 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/or is an NHS Trust (which includes Acute Trusts, Mental Trusts, Care Services Trusts and Ambulance Trusts) or organisation, police authority, fire authority, ambulance trust, university, higher education, further education college, school academy or other public sector organisation.