2016 - 378 Specialised Housing Scheme, Hereford

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WM Housing are out for tenders for a Specialised Housing Scheme in Hereford. Please submit your price via the In-tend portal and ensure your tender is on headed paper. Applicants are advised to ensure that they do not base their submission on discussions with any other member of WM Housing Group Staff. If you require any clarification on matters contained within the Tender Documents, you must do so via Correspondence on the InTend eTendering system. Failure to observe this requirement will result in your bid being eliminated. Please be aware that all clarification and correspondence in relation to any or all of the attached documents need to raised via Correspondence on the In Tend e-Tendering system. We can not enter into negotiations once the tenders have been received. NB: Should you require assistance or clarification on the use of InTend, please direct all initial enquiries to biyageh.barry@wmhousing.co.uk. Please note that in the case of tender clarifications where appropriate, answers will be circulated to all tenderers. FOREWORD WM Housing Group has a long track-record of delivering high quality newbuild affordable housing projects. Since 2012 we have added open market sale to our development portfolio through West Mercia Development Ltd (WMDL - trading as Signature New Homes) and are actively growing this side of our business, resulting in the total delivery of circa 500 homes a year. We have operated with a partnering ethos on our newbuild development schemes for nearly two decades. Whilst we no longer have a Framework in place, we want to continue to work with this ethos with designer and contractor partners, whilst ensuring that we are more commercial in the way we operate our development function. We have historically contracted on newbuild projects using different forms of contract and different amendments, meaning there has sometimes been a lack of consistency in the way in which we operate. During 2015 we reviewed and considered forms of contract and concluded that the JCT Design and Build 2011 provides both WM and our contractor partners with the clearest contractual arrangement with which to build homes and communities that our customers will be proud to live in. To ensure we respond to the current challenges both in the sector and as an individual business, we have compiled a standard set of contract amendments to the JCT DB 2011 which are supported by a standard set of Employer’s Requirements. In addition to the contract amendments, we have carried out a comprehensive review of our Design Brief in light of the changes to HCA standards and Building Regulations. Our new Design Standards and Elemental Specification offers a more project-specific brief so that designers and contractors can be clearer about what we require on an individual project. By being clearer about what we require, we believe this will aid contractors in their design responsibilities under the JCT c...