Applications open for secure-zero framework
A contemporary framework for the decarbonisation and retrofit of social housing and public sector buildings has opened for functions from contractors at the present time (29 April). For the Retrofit and Decarbonisation (N9) framework, LHC Procurement Community is looking out for consultants and experts in vitality effectivity, heating and ventilation, renewable vitality, charging substances and photo
A contemporary framework for the decarbonisation and retrofit of social housing and public sector buildings has opened for functions from contractors at the present time (29 April).
For the Retrofit and Decarbonisation (N9) framework, LHC Procurement Community is looking out for consultants and experts in vitality effectivity, heating and ventilation, renewable vitality, charging substances and photo voltaic PV.
N9 will starting up in autumn 2024 and flee till 2028.
LHC talked about the framework targets to drive important retrofit works right thru 4.4 million social housing properties, which in flip will abet native authorities and social housing services carry out “urgently important upgrades, leading to warmer, extra vitality-efficient homes”.
The framework will furthermore abet native authorities to guarantee compliance with the authorities’s target to gash carbon emissions by 75 per cent by 2037 right thru 1.8 million non-domestic public buildings.
Clive Feeney, community managing director of LHC, talked about: “This framework will teach the skills important and presents a huge opportunity for experts and consultants to invent a disagreement to communities right thru the UK, handing over tasks for years but to come abet.”
LHC talked about in a press liberate: “N9 will furthermore abet teach work required by a mixture of authorities and vitality company schemes, along with the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) and Public Sector Decarbonisation Plan (PSDS). Together, the schemes are value £1.4bn, with match funding from social housing from native authorities, social housing services, and charities adding £1.1bn.”
N9 will more than probably be accessible nationwide thru the LHC’s 5 industry gadgets: London and South East (LSE), Consortium Procurement Growth (CPC), South West Procurement Alliance (SWPA), Welsh Procurement Alliance (WPA), and Scottish Procurement Alliance (SPA).
LHC opened a market engagement and suggestions course of for the N9 framework in September 2023.
The four-year N9 framework follows on from LHC’s Vitality Efficiency Measures and Related Works (N8) framework.
