Low Carbon offsite construction DPS

  • LHC for the South West Procurement Alliance (SWPA)

F14: Notice for changes or additional information

Notice reference: 2021/S 000-014271

Published 23 June 2021, 9:16am



Section one: Contracting authority/entity

one.1) Name and addresses

LHC for the South West Procurement Alliance (SWPA)

Royal House 2-4 Vine Street

Uxbridge

UB81QE

Contact

Phillip Blackmore

Email

phillip.blackmore@swpa.org.uk

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKK - South West (England)

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.swpa.org.uk/


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

Low Carbon offsite construction DPS

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 45211000 - Construction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual houses

two.1.3) Type of contract

Works

two.1.4) Short description

The London Housing Consortium (LHC) (acting as the Central Purchasing Body for the South West Procurement Alliance (SWPA)), are consulting on the potential establishment of a DPS Agreement for Construction of residential dwellings (including any associated community buildings and facilities) incorporating low energy offsite system across the South West. The DPS is aimed at delivering offsite housing, apartments, care homes and multi-occupancy dwellings including zero carbon solutions. This DPS application process will run in conjunction with a new digital toolkit from Constructing Modern Methods (CMM). CMM was developed as a concept in a previous piece of research funded by the Local Government Association and conducted with Bristol City Council (BCC) and Bristol Housing Festival (BHF) to understand what resources might make the widescale adoption of modern methods of construction and offsite housing solutions more feasible. The form of the DPS will be subject to a pre-tender engagement process, commencing with this PIN and is proposing to hold pretender market engagement for prospective tenders. Please note that market consultation documents will be available from 16:00 noon on the date of publication of this PIN via Procontract: https://procontract.due-north.com/Procurer/Advert/AdvertSummary?projectId=35227cbb-9185-eb11-810c-005056b64545&projectStepId=37227cbb-9185-eb11-810c-005056b64545


Section six. Complementary information

six.6) Original notice reference

Notice number: 2021/S 000-005316


Section seven. Changes

seven.1.2) Text to be corrected in the original notice

Section number

II.1.4

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The London Housing Consortium (LHC) (acting as the Central Purchasing Body for the South West Procurement Alliance (SWPA)), are consulting on the potential establishment of a DPS

Agreement for Construction of residential dwellings (including any associated community buildings and facilities) incorporating low energy offsite system across the South West. The DPS is aimed at delivering offsite / MMC housing, apartments, care homes and multioccupancy dwellings including zero carbon solutions.

This DPS application process will run in conjunction with a new digital toolkit from Constructing Modern Methods (CMM).

CMM was developed as a concept in a previous piece of research funded by the Local Government Association and conducted with Bristol City Council (BCC) and Bristol Housing Festival (BHF) to understand what resources might make the widescale adoption of modern methods of construction and offsite housing solutions more feasible.

Candidates will need to register as a supplier on SWPA's eTendering portal, ProContract before being able to apply to the DPS. Once registered candidates will need to ensure they

are logged in and click the appropriate DPS link from the opportunity list by filtering 'organisations' and selecting LHC. Once they have entered the Low Carbon Offsite

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LHC (acting as the Central Purchasing Body for the South

West Procurement Alliance (SWPA)), are inviting applications for a DPS Agreement for Construction of residential dwellings (including any associated community buildings and facilities) incorporating low energy offsite system across the South West. The DPS is aimed at delivering offsite / MMC housing, apartments, care homes and multioccupancy dwellings including zero carbon solutions.

This DPS application process will run in conjunction with a new digital toolkit from Constructing Modern Methods (CMM).

CMM was developed as a concept in a previous piece of research funded by the Local Government Association and conducted with Bristol City Council (BCC) and Bristol Housing Festival (BHF) to understand what resources might make the widescale adoption of modern methods of construction and offsite housing solutions more feasible.

Candidates will need to register as a supplier on SWPA's eTendering portal, ProContract before being able to apply to the DPS. Once registered candidates will need to ensure they

are logged in and click the appropriate DPS link from the opportunity list by filtering 'organisations' and selecting LHC. Once they have entered the Low Carbon Offsite