- Assisting a housing association to develop and implement a strategy for the procurement of their vehicle fleet comprising of cars, light commercial and specialist vehicles including subsequent repairs and maintenance. This included structuring the procurement process and drafting the OJEU contract notices, pre-qualification questionnaires, qualitative based invitation to tender documentation, including detailed evaluation methodologies and scoring approaches. Dealing with and managing bidder queries through to submissions and contract finalising.
- Advising a housing association and liaising with the Cabinet Office in relation to aggrieved challenges raised against the housing association’s enthusiasm and commitment to encouraging the use of local SMEs, social value and community benefit requirements from their public procurements of works, services and supplies. This required detailed advice in the legality and extent of social benefits and values, along with developing procurement strategies and evaluation methodologies.
- Advising a housing association client on the strategic procurement of its £250 million asset management requirements over a three year programme, including advising on strategy formation, drafting of all procurement documentation and associated contractual arrangements based on amended standard published forms and bespoke arrangements including ancillary documentation and professional appointments.
- Advising a lead Local Authority in connection with the establishment and procurement of a series of multi-contractor frameworks for the construction of up to 23 new schools. This required the preparation of a collaborative agreement between the five participating local authorities involved in procuring this innovative multi party arrangement for the £270 million construction programme. The further key aspects of the procurement included advising in connection with the establishment of the initial procurement strategy and preparing an inter-authority agreement. Advising in connection with all aspects of the procurement documentation including the qualitative invitation to tender documentation along with advice as to EU procurement and the preparation of all draft multi party agreements utilising innovative call off mechanisms and benchmarking measures.
- Advising a central government department and working closely with an affiliated group of ten local authorities in connection with a pilot project designed to transform an integrated approach to delivering asset management, create integration of supply chains, employment and training initiatives and to re-engineer cost savings. This also included developing new systems of supply chain engineering so as to enable the Local Authorities, post-contract award, to work with their supply chains and re-engineer the output savings. Facilitating this innovative approach required the creation and developing of processes, template documentation, model guidance and development of a tool kit.