Published date: 22 February 2022

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 25 March 2022

Contract summary

Industry

  • Telecommunications network - 32412100

  • Internet network - 32412110

  • Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork - 45230000

Location of contract

England

Procurement reference

ACC001-DN599180-02368984

Published date

22 February 2022

Closing date

25 March 2022

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Our corporate strategy 2021-2024, Building Better Futures, sets out our ambitious agenda to deliver high quality homes in response to the UK housing crisis and to transform how we provide services to our customers. Our ambition is to be recognised as a market leader for the quality of our homes and the effectiveness of our services.
Accent's principal activity is the management and development of affordable housing, and the organisation currently provides just over 20,000 homes to around 35,000 customers. We have homes across much of England split into 5 regions which broadly[but not exactly] mirror HM Government Office regions:
• Yorkshire & Humber
• East
• South
• North West
• North East
A sharp increase in wayleave requests associated with the installation of fibre-optic cabling into our properties, coupled with amendments to the Telecommunications Code of Conduct regarding a respondent's approach to wayleave risks placing an undue financial and resource burden on Accent.
Accent Housing seeks to engage with the market for the purpose of building knowledge to inform the design of a detailed procurement & service specification prior launching a competitive process for the provision of Internet Access Connectivity Wayleave Consultancy Services.
We are particularly interested in engaging with Economic Operators who have a demonstrable track record in working with Registered Providers of Social Housing in providing advice, guidance, and operational process design & delivery to support the management of requests received from third party communications companies to install fibre cabling into our properties.

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In the first instance please submit your response to Procontract project DN599180, via the Proactis Portal messaging platform as an executive summary detailing the services you offer and your experience in this area. The Pin closes on 25/03/2022 and that is the deadline for submissions
All respondents who meet the minimum criteria will be invited to attend a 60-90 minute meeting via videoconference at a mutually convenient time either w/c 04/04/2022 or w/c 11/04/2022.

Please note that communication outside of the Proactis portal will be disregarded.

About the buyer

Contact name

Chris Cuthell

Address

Accent Housing Ltd
Charlestown House, Acorn Park Industrial Estate, Charlestown
Shipley
BD17 7SW
England

Email

noreply@accentgroup.org

Website

http://www.housingprocurement.com