Main (Management) Contractors For Housing Development

CHIC and EEM are looking to appoint main (management) contractors to manage the delivery of new homes. The framework will include the management of housing schemes and sites including the erection of homes manufactured off site and delivered to and erected on site including modular homes and homes constructed using frames and panels. Works include the construction of homes utilising brick and block and other on site construction methodologies including, but not limited to, prefabricated floor and roof cassettes and dormers. Projects will involve a range of standard house types including homes, (flats, houses, bungalows etc.) for social / affordable rent, shared ownership, market rent, for outright sale, for a combination of these and other tenures. Projects may include homes and ancillary buildings, which may be retail commercial mixed use or specialist in type or nature. Management contractors will be required to manage all aspects of site construction including, but not limited to, demolition, site infrastructure services, roads, pathways lighting, landscaping, brickwork, roofing, insulation and all other works including but not exclusively first and second fix and internal fit out.

The CHIC and EEM consortia members have requirements predominantly within the Central East and Central West of England and in South & Mid Wales but not exclusively so and may in the future have requirements in other parts of England and Wales. Both consortia are owned by RP’s (Housing Associations, ALMO’s and Local Authorities) and have large scale membership. Both have successfully delivered a range of materials and works contracts for their members over the last 4 years.

The Framework Agreement will be awarded in regional Lots. A full description of the Lot structure is attached to this notice and provided within the Invitation to Tender documents.

Additional information: This Contract Notice has been published by Central Housing Investment Consortium Limited ("CHIC") and Efficiency East Midlands Limited ("EEM") on behalf of their members and the other organisations described below as being Authorised Users. CHIC and EEM are each incorporated as companies limited by guarantee. The Framework Agreements being procured by the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice will be entered by CHIC and EEM as the Contracting Authorities which will have undertaken and completed that procurement exercise. Any reference in this Contract Notice to Contracting Authority is deemed to be and include a reference to CHIC and EEM.

Further information and full list of CHIC and EEM members is attached to this notice.