Published date: 19 November 2019

Last edited date: 7 December 2020

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 21 January 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services - 71000000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£500,000,000

Procurement reference

LHC002-DN505616-70458630

Published date

19 November 2019

Closing date

21 January 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 October 2021

Contract end date

30 September 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

This partnership between LHC and Southwark Council seeks to appoint up to 20 of the very best established
and emerging, architect practices with diverse leadership and employees.
The proposal is to use both this new framework and our original ADS1 framework (EU Contract Notice 2020/
S 101-245136, Contracts Finder Notice LHC002-DN442036-31304442) as one enhanced solution that together offers a representative and comprehensive panel of architects who come with a range of ethnicities, socio-economic backgrounds and experience that reflects Southwark and the wider London demographic.
Southwark is committed to come together to tackle ingrained structural inequality and bring about real and
positive change in its borough. The importance of effective engagement with young people and the community
as a whole is recognised in designing and creating good public spaces, commercial, educational and residential
spaces. It is important to empower different groups so that spaces can be used effectively by all and as places
to bring people together. We seek practices who understand this and who live and breathe diversity & inclusion
in their organisation, which in turn will influence how they design and deliver their schemes.
This opportunity is open to any qualified architect practice, however given the project's aims and objectives, we
are particularly encouraging applications from qualified practices who come with:-
- A diverse leadership
- Employee model that represents the diversity of London
- Lived experience of disadvantaged communities
- A background of having overcome adversity or disadvantage either as a result of protected characteristics or
another reason
- Success in bringing under-privileged and BAME architects/interns through their business (ie. sponsorship and
paid work)
- A well established and demonstrable equality, diversity & inclusion approach in how they run their business
and how they design their schemes
- The ability to relate to under-represented and hard-to-reach communities
- The ability to reach out to young people in disadvantaged communities, such that young people look up to
them as inspirational role models they can relate to.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Architect Design Services (ADS) Framework

  • Opportunity
  • Published 19 November 2019

About the buyer

Contact name

Shona Snow

Address

2 Vine Street
Uxbridge
UB8 1QE
England

Email

shona.snow@lhc.gov.uk

Website

http://www.lhc.gov.uk