Compliance
Our Compliance frameworks are clever, agile and really embrace building safety.
Our Compliance frameworks are clever, agile and really embrace building safety.
Asbestos inspections & testing
Water hygiene risk assessments
Fire safety frameworks
Heating & water hygiene
Frameworks that connect you with experienced consultants ready to support your projects.
Asset & development consultancy
Compliance consultancy
We've a number of frameworks to support your development projects.
Our framework covers fully managed, secure, flexible and auditable electronic payment services.
We've two frameworks that can help with your facilities management.
Our repairs and maintenance frameworks support all aspects of your asset management strategies.
Internal & external building works
Frameworks to help you design, deliver and maintain whole-house energy efficiency measures.
Zero carbon solutions
Electric vehicle charging
Mechanical ventilation
Domestic air source heat pumps
Communal air source heat pumps
Domestic ground source heat pumps
Solar thermal & PV
Communal ground source heat pumps
Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)
A DPS split into 4 Lots covering the delivery of individual energy efficiency measures and whole house retrofit works.
Our Decarbonisation Works DPS connects you to experienced contractors able to deliver individual measures as well as whole house retrofit.
All Decarbonisation frameworks
The DPS provides you with a compliant route to appoint contractors all experienced in delivering projects for the housing sector. It’s been split into 4 Lots covering the delivery of individual measures and whole house retrofit works. It’s been designed to sit alongside our Decarbonisation Partnerships Framework.
Some aspects of a DPS are similar to a framework – but an important difference is that suppliers can join or leave at any time. This makes it easier to include local SME contractors, or new suppliers to bid for your tenders.
This Lot covers the design and installation of external wall insulation, loft insulation, cavity wall insulation and floor insulation.
This Lot covers the design, generation, installation, distribution and maintenance of renewable heat and hot water solutions. This includes:
This Lot covers the design, generation, installation, distribution and maintenance of renewable power and storage solutions. This includes:
This Lot is comprehensive and holds a variety of suppliers able to deliver whole house retrofit projects. Contracts can cover domestic, communal and commercial buildings.
We’ll talk to you about your upcoming project and ask you to complete a pre-project form. This helps us to tailor our services to your specific project and get you procurement ready.
Any contractors which you already know can register to join the DPS at this stage. Once approved they can then be included in your tender.
Once you’re happy to proceed we will issue an Invitation To Tender (ITT). This will go to all of the suppliers on the relevant Lot of the DPS. Suppliers can choose to opt-in or opt-out.
Interested suppliers will then return the completed ITT by the deadline. We will compile the tender responses and send these to you for evaluation.
You will evaluate the submissions and we can help you with your tender report. You can then write the award letters, or we can do this for you. The award letters will then be sent out to the tenderers.
We can help you draft your contract if required.
Who can access this DPS?
Any publicly funded body can use the DPS – 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 our DPS. A levy % dependant on whether you are a guest or member is collected directly from the contractor once a call off contract is awarded. The levy operates on a cascade system – with the % charge decreasing in line with contract spend.
If you’d like to discuss this with us in more detail please let us know – we’re happy to help.
Can I ask my preferred suppliers to join the DPS?
Yes – if you have any small and/or local firms you like to use for certain repairs or maintenance works and are looking for a complaint route to award, you can point them to our DPS. This will make mini tenders including your preferred suppliers easier. We’ve produced some advice for suppliers looking to join the DPS here.
