Torus — Trading as Helena Partnerships is seeking to establish a 4 year framework agreement to secure suitably experienced and responsible Contractors to provide:
i) site preparation services and
ii) construct new homes with high quality levels, lower construction and associated design costs, utilising a limited range of standard house types.
Torus expects to appoint a maximum of 2 Contractors who will manage all of the works obligations through a direct or subcontracted workforce, for whom they will take full operational and performance management responsibility.
Contracts will be awarded under the framework agreement on the basis of the criteria set out in the Invitation to Tender documentation, either by way of direct call off or by mini-tender. It is initially anticipated that the Framework will primarily cover land and construction sites owned and/or managed by Torus. The Framework will be available to Torus and other Authorised Users defined at V.1.3)
Torus — Trading as Helena Partnerships is seeking to establish a framework agreement to secure suitably experienced and responsible Contractors to provide:
i) site preparation services and
ii) construct new homes with high quality levels, lower construction and associated design costs, utilising a limited range of standard house types.
Each of the above will be covered by 1 works Framework. There may therefore be occasions when a Contractor will be required to undertake site preparation works only.
Torus expects to appoint a maximum of 2 Contractors who will manage all of the works through a direct or subcontracted workforce, for whom they will take full operational and performance management responsibility.
Contracts will be awarded under the framework agreement on the basis of the criteria set out in the ITT documentation. Contracts will be awarded under the framework agreement either by way of direct call off or by mini-tender. Torus and other Authorised Users reserve the right to award contracts to a contractor outside the framework. Contracts called off under the framework may continue beyond the 4 year period to coincide with completion of any scheme, or programme of schemes, which commenced during the framework agreement.
It is initially anticipated that the Framework will primarily cover land and construction sites owned and/or managed by Torus. However, the Framework will be available to Torus and other Authorised Users falling into the following categories:
1. Any Current Torus Member at the date of the Contract Notice;
2. Any Future Member of Torus, being a local authority, ALMO or Registered Provider housing landlord organisation (of the type described in the third paragraph of this section) entitled to join and which has applied to and has joined Torus as a member in accordance with the constitutional documents of Torus and in respect of which organisation notice has been given by Torus to the successful economic operators that such organisation is an Authorised User as a member of Torus. Future Torus Members may include consortia, and the members thereof made up of organisations which would themselves individually be entitled to be a future Torus Member and may include any special purpose vehicle (of whatever nature) wholly owned and controlled by the consortia members and would include in those circumstances the consortia members that own and control the special purpose vehicle;
3. A Torus Framework Participant – being an organisation which is neither a Current Torus Member (as defined at 1. above) nor a Future Member of Torus (as defined at 2. above) will be entitled to use the contracts advertised by the Contract Notice if it owns and/or maintains/manages housing stock or other property in one or more geographical area in the United Kingdom 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 Arms Length Management Organisation (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 is itself a Contracting Authority for the purpose of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 and in respect of which organisation notice has been given by Torus to the economic operators that such organisation is an Authorised User as a Torus Framework Participant . Torus Framework Participants will include consortia and the members thereof made up of organisations which would themselves individually be or entitled to be Torus Framework Participants and may include any special purpose vehicle (of whatever nature) wholly owned and controlled by the consortia members and would include in those circumstances the consortia members that own and control the special purpose vehicle.