{"id":90655,"date":"2021-03-19T08:32:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T08:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=90655"},"modified":"2021-03-19T08:32:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T08:32:31","slug":"offsite-housing-procurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/offsite-housing-procurement\/90655\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a31.1bn procurement solution to unlock offsite housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Constructing Modern Methods (CMM) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swpa.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South West Procurement Alliance<\/a> (SWPA) has launched a new \u00a31.1bn procurement solution to unlock offsite, low carbon housing<\/h2>\n<p>Tackling the housing crisis is a priority for all local authorities, but in the West and South West of England public sector housing represents the fastest growing area of construction.<\/p>\n<p>Offsite, low-carbon housing is seen as the solution to building high-quality homes at this scale and pace, but there are major challenges to unlocking these types of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/mmc-insight\/89574\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">modern methods of construction<\/a> (MMC) in a rapidly evolving marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>Developed in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ytko.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YTKO<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolhousingfestival.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bristol Housing Festival<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristol.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bristol City Council<\/a> and nine modular housing providers \u2013 and backed by Innovate UK \u2013 the solution was to build a database that could allow local authorities to analyse the marketplace and define their requirements before procuring against a dynamic purchasing system (DPS).<\/p>\n<h3>\u2018A robust and compliant procurement process\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Constructing Modern Methods lead, Philip Stott, said: \u201cseveral Local Authorities have found that they want to use these new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/offsite-weatherproofing\/87538\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">offsite systems<\/a> for meeting their housing needs but have no idea where to start.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a huge variety of offerings in the marketplace from panel systems to full homes arriving on backs of lorries and they all have strengths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur database helps the user in the local authority to understand this market quickly and then provide a robust, and importantly compliant, procurement process so they can tender against the values which matter to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Dynamic Purchasing System combined with the CMM tool will enable social housing providers to input their specific requirements and match them against an extensive list of approved offsite suppliers to provide an affordable housing solution without having to have spent many months researching the market.<\/p>\n<p>Founder of The Bristol Housing Festival, Jez Sweetland, commented: \u201cThe Innovate UK project provided an essential context within which to work with Bristol City Council and the support of West of England Combined Authority to address some of the operational <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/mmc-social-housing\/81206\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">barriers to MMC<\/a> and to co-design a solution to help meet the region\u2019s strategic goals in terms of sustainable, affordable high-quality housing delivered at pace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Working together with CMM, SWPA, the South West hub of LHC, provides the opportunity for many new and emerging MMC\/offsite suppliers to engage with public sector organisations. It is hoped that these will come forward from the whole of the South West region supporting and boosting the local economy.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Bennell, director at SWPA, added: \u201cthis is much more than just launching another procurement solution for offsite\/MMC housing. 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