Delivery Partner Panel 3

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BIDDERS PLEASE NOTE: The latest Q & A document has been uploaded. BIDDERS PLEASE NOTE: The latest Q & A document has been uploaded to the extranet. Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) is seeking to establish a framework of delivery partners who will work with the HCA and other contracting authorities who may decide to take advantage of this framework. The framework (known as DPP3) will be for 4 years and be split into 5 regional lots each with 35 suppliers dependent upon receiving sufficient compliant bids. It is intended to be used for the procurement and development of housing-led sites. This will include all activities necessary to construct housing and associated infrastructure, marketing and sales and transfer of freehold to eventual owners. The Scope of Works includes all activities necessary to deliver completed homes, including raising of development finance; means to share development risk and reward; planning promotion including masterplanning; obtaining planning permission; supply chain management; design and construction of homes; provision of starter homes and other forms of affordable housing (in association with a registered provider, Local Authority or alternative provider); design and construction of infrastructure to support housing; sales and marketing of homes; aftercare and maintenance; management of completed units/developments; soft market testing. Specifically this will include development and disposal of sites for residential use; development and disposal of mixed-use housing-led sites, mixed-use elements could include community facilities, retailor commercial development, open space ancillary to and in support of housing; construction of housing and other associated buildings to include community facilities, retail or commercial development ancillary to and in support of housing; direct commissioning of homes; refurbishment / retrofit of existing homes, residential buildings, empty homes and associated buildings; refurbishment, restoration, conversion of heritage or other buildings for residential led use; demolition, site remediation and enabling works to prepare sites for residential or mixed-use development; construction of infrastructure to support residential and mixed-use development; development of Extra Care accommodation, Independent Living accommodation, other accommodation for vulnerable people and private rented housing; development of student accommodation; off-site manufacture of homes, modular construction, system build; maintenance and site management; construction or development of buildings to provide social infrastructure to support residential or residential-led development, provision of custom build homes, provision of serviced self-build plots; provision of serviced development parcels within a larger development site. It is likely that many of the projects procured through the panel will have long build-out durations and it is anticipated that some of these will take up to 10 ye