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One of England’s largest housing associations is setting up more frameworks to provide goods from pest control to bottled water to the public sector.
Hyde, which manages 50,000 homes in London and the South East, has again expanded its procurement work with two new frameworks worth £50m between them.
This means the association has brought in £115m worth of new frameworks aimed at outside organisations in 2018, part of a significant expansion in this area.
A framework is a general agreement made with suppliers to set out terms and conditions for the awarding of contracts by a number of organisations over a set period of time.
Hyde’s new £40m framework will govern the supply and maintenance of water coolers, hot water boilers, water fountains and bottled water to public sector bodies, from inside and outside the social housing sector.
It has already named contractors for its £10m pest control framework, which is targeted at social housing providers only. The winning bidders were Orbis Protect, Mitie Pest Control and Safeguard Pest Control and Environmental Services.
Other services that Hyde has looked to provide to the public sector through frameworks include the buying and selling of real estate, fire safety and vending machines.
The association has told Inside Housing it is also working on a framework for stationery, and that “a very big public sector organisation has already asked us specifically about” the vending machines framework.
The association has set up frameworks for use outside Hyde before, with 15 registered providers and local authorities using its framework for finding main contractors on developments in the past.
Andy Clorley, head of procurement at Hyde, told Inside Housing: “By us opening it up to a wider audience, it gives the people who are bidding for the frameworks a bigger chunk of the pie to aim for.
“If they know that anyone in the public sector can use this framework, they will get potentially a lot of business out of it, which will then lead to them giving us either better pricing or better value for money.”