This Lot is designed to help you audit your compliance activities. This includes your documents, reports, certificated, policies and procedures. It connects you to independent consultants able to provide desktop audits, quality assurance and compliance consultancy across all areas of operation. 

This is an important way to ensure you’re keeping accurate records, and using your suppliers appropriately with robust checks. Consultants are able to help you across the following workstreams:

Heating Lifts
Fire Risk Assessments Electrical reports
Radon Water Hygiene

Award Options

Direct Award

Customers are able to Direct Award to any contractor on the Lot regardless of ranking. To do this you must have a justifiable reason for going outside of Rank 1. If you’d like to speak to us about this in more detail please get in touch.

How long will this take me?

A direct award will take approximately 3-4 weeks depending on your internal approval processes.

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Mini Competition

You can also run a mini-competition from this framework. You’ll be able to use your own specification and cost model. You can also choose your own cost / quality split and quality questions. All pricing submitted by contractors must be linked to the framework.

How long will this take me?

Once you have your specification and cost model ready, the tender process takes approximately 6-8 weeks, depending on your internal approval processes.

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Accessing this Framework

Who can access this framework?

Any publicly funded body can use this framework – access is not limited to SEC Members alone. Full details can be found here.

Is there a cost to access? 

There is no access fee to use this framework. A levy % dependant on whether you are a guest or member is collected directly from the contractor once a call off contract is awarded. This percentage will never be more than 1.5% for Members and 2% for Guests.

How do I access this framework?

If your organisation is already a SEC Member then you will not need to sign an additional Access Agreement. You’re already signed up.
If your organisation is new to SEC, and would like to use our frameworks as a non-member then you will need to sign our Access Agreement. You’ll only need to sign this once and you’ll receive access to all our Frameworks and DPS’s – even ones we procure in the future. You can view a draft agreement here – DRAFT Access Agreement (Non-Members).

What are frameworks?

Learn more about how frameworks work and how our sector uses them.

Framework Tender

The cost and quality elements of this tender was evaluated at 30% cost and 70% quality. The cost model for this Lot is based on three areas:

  1. Review of your certificates and reports for each area of compliance,
  2. Delivering a report on their findings and the transfer of data into your preferred format,
  3. Review of your policies and procedures.

The quality submission scored bidders on their:

  • methodology for carrying out audits,
  • approach to keeping up to date with current legislation and best practice,
  • approach to training and empowering their client for the ongoing management.

Next Steps

Ready to use this framework?

Please contact us today. Our Procurement team will support you with your requirements. 

Have some further questions?

Check out our FAQs page here. Or contact a member of the team today – we’re happy to help.