Social Value through Collaborative Resourcing of Capital Works

Stockport Homes is an arm's length management organisation formed in 2005 to manage housing stock across Stockport on behalf of Stockport Council.

Stockport Homes stated aims are to:

• Ensure customer feedback is at the heart of how we deliver exceptional services to our customers
• Build and manage safe homes and communities for now and the future
• Work with our partners across Stockport to ensure opportunities for everyone are available
• Grow our business to be able to invest in essential and transformational services for customers
• Take responsibility for driving change locally, regionally and nationally to improve standards in social housing
• Support and invest in our colleagues as a great place to work

In addition, within the SHG Group Structure, the Subsidiary Company Aims relating to this opportunity are:

Three Sixty:

• Provide a high quality, innovative service resulting in an exceptional customer experience
• Generate a profit which is used to deliver real social value
• Be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining the best talent
• Reduce the inequality that exists within construction and society at large
• Deliver low carbon and environmental best practice through all operations

SKylight (Community Benefit Society):

• Supporting people into employment, relieving poverty, relieving food poverty and developing digital skills
• Supporting customers in local communities and delivering support services to help people live independently
• Empowering communities to develop networks of support, including targeted work with people who may experience disadvantage such as people with disabilities, from ethnic minority communities and those with complex needs
• Working in partnership to reduce demand on statutory services; and supporting the development of the third sector, ensuring additional resources and services are secured

Stockport Homes is committed to:

(a) maximising the employment, skills and training opportunities for residents of the Borough and for Stockport Homes' customers; and

(b) ensuring that the outcomes from employment, skills and training opportunities are realistic, tailored and sustained.

SHG is seeking expressions of interest for an innovative contract for the provision of training services and related job opportunities and related social, economic and environmental impact, to be delivered through the medium of capital works to the Group's housing portfolio.

The primary aims of the proposed contract will be to:

(a) seek to promote social justice;

(b) tackle poverty;

(c) address inequalities; and

(d) address climate change.

Through this contract SHG requires the provision of:

(a) employment and training services, focussed on creating and sustaining opportunities for employment and training (including pre-employment training, training and education in a classroom setting and on-the-job training) within the area; alongside

(b) delivery of general refurbishment works on Stockport Homes' void properties to an agreed standard, capital works on Stockport Homes' housing stock (which may include roofline / fencing / general repairs / damp, mould and condensation works) and other works / project opportunities as they arise.

The proposed employment and training services and the works, are expected to be provided in furtherance of the primary aims of the contract described above and keeping these primary aims in mind at all times.

CPV codes:

45000000

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80500000

80531000

80550000

50700000 Additional information: This potential opportunity is advertised on Procontract, and all responses MUST be returned via the Procontract e-Procurement Portal which is accessible here:

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Interested parties are invited to express an interest in this proposed contract by 17/10/2024 @ 17:00 via Procontract e-Procurement Portal, providing brief details of the organisation expressing an interest and its experience of providing integrated training and sustained employment services while delivering works the same as or similar to those described above.

SHG will then engage with interested parties, providing a questionnaire to gather further information relating to interested parties experience of delivering social value (including employment and training) as a core element of the subject matter of a contract alongside works. Following market engagement, it is Stockport Homes' intention to engage in competition following a restricted procedure under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 for the proposed opportunity, subject to this Prior Information Notice demonstrating sufficient competition within the marketplace for this contract.