Timber

Tender description

London and Quadrant Housing Trust are tendering for a Timber Frame Housing Partner for London and Quadrant’s Self Delivered New Build Projects to comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The successful partner will demonstrate the capability and existing resource to deliver a design, manufacture, supply and erection service for residential units up to 6 stories across the UK. The partner needs to have UK house building expertise and heritage; compliance with NHBC standards; a pattern book for UK approved housing units; in-house architectural, design engineering resource and BIM compliance including an associated product library of BIM components. Operationally, the partner will have the capacity to manufacture and deliver up to 1 000 units per annum. The partner will have a national network of construction resource, including project management and on-site delivery resource. In-house health and safety systems and management and in-house, off-site training and resources are essential. The partner will have a wide range of product options that provide a choice of performance specifications and compliance with UK mortgage lenders. The partner will be Structural Timber Association (STA) Gold Assured and will have externally audited ISO 9001 and 14001 quality and environment systems. London and Quadrant shall be under no obligation to appoint any partner. Call-off procedures will include (i) direct selection and/or (ii) mini competitions. Under the Framework Agreement L&Q and all companies within the L&Q Group (including, without limitation, Quadrant Construction Services) will have the option to call-off contracts the partner as and when services are required. The Process: Suppliers that would like to be considered for this opportunity are invited to "Express Interest" via our e-procurement portal; upon which they will be given access to the full tender documentation which will be made available through this e-tendering system. — Only suppliers who have expressed interest within the prior information notice period will be eligible to participate in this tender — When the tender documents have been made available, involved suppliers will receive notification via email and the tender documents can be accessed from the "My tenders" area of this website and selecting the "View Details" button of this project. An expression of interest will only be accepted until Monday the 23.4.2018 and the deadline for the submission of the tender will be Monday the 4.6.2018. This is a 2 stage tender and both stages adhere to the time-scales as prescribed within the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 for Open OJEU Tenders of 40 days for electronic OJEU Notices. The first stage is the Standard Selection Questionnaire which will commence on Monday the 23.4.2018 and must be submitted by Wednesday the 23rd of May. Those who match our criteria on the first stage will advance to the next section. The second stage is the Invitation To Tender (ITT) which will commence on Wednesday the 23rd of May and must be submitted by Monday the 4.6.2018. The ITT stage is where tenderers must read and complete two ITT Documents and supply any documents that they believe will help them to succeed with this procurement opportunity and become a framework supplier to L&Q. Please allow sufficient time to submit your return by the specified date as late returns will not be permitted. Any questions relating to this tender should be made via the correspondence facility on the website and can be addressed to the main contact as shown in the details above. Emails sent to specific individuals within L&Q involved with this procurement activity will not be responded to whilst the opportunity is live. N/A.