Housing association and councils seek firms who specialise in net zero solutions
A consortium of 44 social landlords has launched a £2bn zero carbon framework.
The South East Consortium (SEC) is looking for firms who specialise in technologies designed to help buildings achieve net zero. It wants bids from companies that maintain and install both ground and air-source heat pumps, as well as a variety of sustainable ventilation systems.
In a contract notice the framework provider said: "The housing sector is under growing pressure to realise a position of net zero carbon. Our members need a comprehensive framework that provides options suitable to all cases.
"Whether that be carbon reduction assessments and master plans for change, specific energy efficiency improvements, or a group of improvements to be installed, options to add maintenance packages to such technologies, and options for partnerships with organisations or consortia where the whole challenge, either by stock holding or by estate can be worked on together."
The framework will run for two years with the option of extending for a further two years and like all SEC Frameworks can be accessed by all publicly funded organisations.
Firms have until 30 September to register their interest in the deal.
This deal is the second part of SEC's frameworks covering zero carbon - with invitations to tender already being considered for a £5bn deal that covers a whole other range of services.
The framework launch follows rising concern among social landlords about the potential cost of the decarbonisation agenda and what this could mean for development.
Geeta Nanda, chair of the G15 and chief executive of Metropolitan Thames Valley, last month told Housing Today of the importance of making sure the right decarbonisation technologies are used and that good piloting and data is essential. “We want to make sure that whatever we put in place has been worked through, that those technologies work and that we’re not going to be putting in place things that five years later, we’re going to have to take out again” she said. Nanda warned stock would have to be sold off if associations can't meet the targets or the cost is too high.
What is the South East Consortium?
SEC is a non-profit central purchasing body set up to help the housing sector more efficiently tender for works. It has 44 members from the housing association and local authority sectors.
The members are:
- Arhag Housing Association
- Ashford Borough Council
- Barnsbury Housing Association
- Basildon Borough Council
- Croydon Churches Housing Association
- Dover District Council
- Eastbourne Homes
- Epping Forest District Council
- Golding Homes
- Gravesend Churches Housing Association
- Gravesham Borough Council
- Hastoe Housing Association
- Hexagon Housing Association
- Home Group
- Homes for Haringey
- Industrial Dwellings Society (IDS)
- Inquilab Housing Association
- Keniston Housing Association
- Lewes District Council
- Lewisham Homes
- Local Space
- London Borough of Enfield
- London Borough of Hackney
- London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham
- London Borough of Islington
- London Borough of Southwark
- Moat Homes
- Optivo
- Origin Housing
- Phoenix Community Housing
- Providence Row Housing Association
- Radcliffe Housing Society
- Raven Housing Trust
- Sapphire Independent Homes
- Silva Homes
- Sutton Housing Partnership
- Thurrock Council
- Town & Country Housing
- Walterton & Elgin Community Homes (WECH)
- Waltham Forest Housing Association
- Wandle Housing Association
- Wealden District Council
- West Kent Housing Association
- YMCA
Zero Carbon Framework - Part 2
Lot 1a - Installation of air source heat pumps and smart heating controls for domestic heating and cooling
Lot 1b - Maintenance of air source heat pumps and smart heating controls for domestic heating and cooling
Lot 1c - Combination of installation and maintenance of air source heat pumps and smart heating controls for domestic heating and cooling
Lot 1d - Installation of ground source heat pumps and smart heating controls for domestic heating and cooling
Lot 1e - Maintenance of ground source heat pumps and smart heating controls for domestic heating and cooling
Lot 1f - Combination of installation and maintenance of ground source heat pumps and smart heating controls for domestic heating and cooling
Lot 2a - Installation of air source heat pumps and smart heating controls for district or communal heating and cooling
Lot 2b - Maintenance of air source heat pumps and smart heating controls for district or communal heating and cooling
Lot 2c - Combination of installation and maintenance of air source heat pumps and smart heating controls for district or communal heating and cooling
Lot 2d - Installation of ground source heat pumps and smart heating controls for district or communal heating and cooling
Lot 2e - Maintenance of ground source heat pumps and smart heating controls for district or communal heating and cooling
Lot 2f - Combination of installation and maintenance of ground source heat pumps and smart heating controls for district or communal heating and cooling
Lot 3a - Installation of mechanical ventilation with heat recovery - MVHR
Lot 3b - Installation of mechanical extract ventilation - MEV
Lot 3c - Installation of passive ventilation with heat recovery - PVHR
Lot 3d - Maintenance of ventilation systems
Lot 3e - Maintenance of PVHR systems
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