PfH Fire Safety Consultancy Services

Tender 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 Regulation 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (“PCR 2015”) and a central purchasing body under regulation 37 PCR 2015. 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 are seeking suitably qualified and experienced fire safety consultants to form a fire safety consultancy framework to be used by our members across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Lot 1: Fire Risk Assessments This lot provides Type 1, 2, 3 and 4 Fire Risk Assessments (FRAS) covering six (6) geographical regions including North of England, Midlands, Wales, South of England, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. Candidates may apply for one or all regions but will be expected to be able to provide services to at least 80 % of the region they are applying for. Supplier will be required to be able to supply at least Type 1 and Type 3 Risk Assessments, but PfH is also intends the framework to cover Type 2 and Type 4 Fire Risk Assessments also. PfH intends to award places on the framework to five (5) suppliers per region but reserves the right to award places to a greater or fewer number of suppliers depending on the bids received. Lot 2: Fire Safety Consultancy Services The provision of fire safety consultancy services including, but not limited to: compliance reviews, review of policy and strategy, fire safety training, advice following fire risk assessments, advice on legislative requirements, project management services, support for fire risk management systems, fire door inspections and other services as set out in the tender documentation. The framework will be awarded on a national (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) and Scotland only basis. PfH intends to award places on the framework to five (5) suppliers nationally and five (5) suppliers for Scotland but reserves the right to award places to a greater or fewer number of suppliers depending on the bids received. Lot 3: Fire Engineering Consultancy Services The provision of fire safety engineering consultancy services including, but not limited to: mechanical and electrical engineering services in respect of fire safety, design of sprinkler systems and fire suppression systems, fire safety and protection systems, project management, procurement services and other fire safety engineering services in new or existing buildings. The framework will be awarded on a national (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) and Scotland only basis. PfH intends to award places on the framework to five (5) suppliers nationally and five (5) suppliers for Scotland but reserves the right to award places to a greater or fewer number of suppliers depending on the bids received.