Cumberland Council's Programme Management Office is seeking to appoint a single professional services provider (the "Consultant") with suitable architectural, building surveying, mechanical and electrical engineering, structural engineering and quantity surveying capability to...
This agreement, let under the Procurement Act 2023 includes consultancy, covering specialisms such as business, strategy and policy, finance, HR, procurement, health or social care and community, infrastructure and environment. As well as restructuring and insolvency.
This is a Procurement Re-wind in relation to UK4 Tender Notice identifier: 2026/S 000-084612.
If you have previously submitted a tender under the existing process and wish to participate in the re-wound process, you will need to submit a replacement tender in accordance with...
Buyer
Cumberland Council
Location
Carlisle
Deadline
Closes 16 Nov 2026
Value
£1.5m
Key dates and value
Status
Closed
Submission deadline
16 Oct 2026
Published
2 Sept 2026
Estimated value
£260m
Contract start
4 Jan 2027
Contract end
3 Jan 2031
Location
Birchwood, North West England
Notice type
UK4
Overview
Established in 2004, Procurement for Housing (PfH) is a national procurement consortium dedicated to the social housing sector and supported by the National Housing Federation (NHF), Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) and HouseMark. Collectively, our Members manage more than 90% of UK’ social housing stock, with PfH helping them to achieve efficiency savings using a wide range of services including framework agreements, dynamic purchasing systems, spend analyses, strategy reviews, consolidated billing and comprehensive reporting. PfH is a contracting authority under section 2 of the Procurement Act 2023 and a centralised procurement authority under section 1(4) of that Act.
Please refer to www.pfh.co.uk for additional information.
PfH is administered by Inprova Limited and is headquartered in the North West of England, with over 20 years of expertise and experience offering a complete procurement solutions package across outsourcing, technology and consultancy. By integrating procurement services and technology, Inprova operates as a delivery partner, supporting business performance improvement for the public sector
PfH intends to establish a framework agreement for Technical Consultancy Services. The framework will operate nationally, for four years and will cover professional support services relating to areas such as Project Management, Cost management, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Architectural Services, CDM, General construction-related consultancy services and Net Zero and a range of other consultancy services. The framework will be divided into lots, which will be set out in the Tender Notice.
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CPV codes
71000000 Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
71321000 Engineering design services for mechanical and electrical installations for buildings
71530000 Construction consultancy services
71314300 Energy-efficiency consultancy services
71200000 Architectural and related services
71317000 Hazard protection and control consultancy services
72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
About the buyer
Procurement for Housing has published 17 tender notices since 27 Oct 2023, with a combined advertised value of £4.5bn. 7 of them are currently open.
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