Scope
Description
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 90% 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 section 2 of the Procurement Act 2023 and a centralised procurement authority under section 1(4) of that Act.
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.
PfH intends to establish a framework agreement for Interior Decorating and Furnishing Solutions. The Framework is expected to include:
• Retail Decorative Solutions - redeemable decorative solutions such as paper voucher, card, electronic point of sale voucher, magnetic strip card, e-voucher etc. in varying denominations, made available to PfH members via multiple platforms to subsequently enable end-users to purchase decorative products such as paint, woodwork treatment, wall coverings, decorative cleaning materials, furnishings, decorative tools and equipment, decorative sundries and associated decorating products.
• Trade Decorative Solutions - provision of paint and associated products and services such as internal paints, masonry, and other external paints and coatings, specialist paints, wallpapers, sundries and associated materials as required.
• Furniture - includes lounge furniture, dining room furniture, bedroom furniture and beds, all in varying materials and finishes. As well as this, members will also be able to purchase textile articles i.e. curtains, blinds, bed linen, and towels.
• Flooring - including soft surface and hard surface flooring; underlay, carpet, wood, wood effect, non-slip flooring, grip matting, gripper rods, area rugs, tile, laminate, covering natural stone, marble, ceramic and porcelain vinyl, and miscellaneous such as cork and rubber. Suppliers will consult with members and tenants and offer a design service as well as post-fitting cleaning and disposal of old
Commercial tool
Establishes a framework
Total value (estimated)
- £65,000,000 excluding VAT
- £78,000,000 including VAT
Contract dates (estimated)
- 3 November 2025 to 2 November 2029
- 4 years
Main category
Services
CPV classifications
- 79931000 - Interior decorating services
- 39100000 - Furniture
- 39000000 - Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products
- 44800000 - Paints, varnishes and mastics
Contract locations
- UK - United Kingdom
Participation
Particular suitability
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
- Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)
Submission
Publication date of tender notice (estimated)
1 July 2025
Procedure
Above or below total value threshold
Above or equal to threshold
Contracting authority
Procurement for Housing
- Companies House: 07662661
2 Olympic Way
Birchwood, Warrington
WA2 0YL
United Kingdom
Contact name: Capital and Infrastructure Team
Email: Responsiveworks@pfh.co.uk
Region: UKD61 - Warrington
Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government