Housing services

Description

Eden District Council (EDC) sought bids from bidders for the administration of its housing allocation and homelessness functions covering the below key areas: — admin of the EDC housing advice function, — admin of the EDC homelessness function, — management of the EDC housing register. The service is required to be delivered throughout Eden. It will be a requirement of the successful bidder to make available a min. of six units of temporary accommodation within Penrith, covering the following property types: — 2 x 2 or 3 bedroom family houses, — 4 x 1 or 2 bed flats. The contract was initially tendered via an OJEU compliant open tender procedure (under contract notice 2019/S 199-483730). One tender submission was received as part of the tender process. This tender process was however cancelled, since the costs submitted were substantially higher than the budget available to EDC. Eden District Council (EDC) sought bids from bidders for the admin of its housing allocation and homelessness functions covering the below key areas: — admin of the EDC housing advice function, — admin of the EDC homelessness function, — Management of the EDC housing register. The service is required to be delivered throughout Eden. It will be a requirement of the successful bidder to make available a min. of six units of temporary accommodation within Penrith, covering the following property types: — 2 x 2 or 3 bedroom family houses, — 4 x 1 or 2 bed flats. The contract was initially tendered via an OJEU compliant open tender procedure (under contract notice 2019/S 199-483730). EDC received one tender submission, however the costs submitted were substantially higher than the budget available. Therefore the tender process was cancelled. In light of this, EDC awarded a contract to the supplier who submitted a bid during the original tender process, via the negotiated procedure without prior publication. Following consultation between EDC and the bidder to bring the service within budget, a contract was awarded for a 2-year period. The conditions of the new contract have not been substantially altered from the initial contract conditions.