In case you missed it, the latest news round-up from SWPA
Foreword from SWPA Director, Mary Bennell
It’s hard to believe that the first quarter of this new financial year is almost over! The SWPA team have enjoyed getting stuck in and working with you to help achieve your targets and goals for this year.
There are a lot of changes coming for procurement, find out more about the Procurement Bill from Mills & Reeve here, as we work to navigate through the changes together!
It is our hope that over the coming year we will build on our relationship to bring a truly collaborative procurement route to your organisation.
CPD Webinar from Garland: Avoiding Common Roof Defects on 29/06/22
With RIBA accredited CPD certificates provided after the event to log those all-important CPD hours, you will learn how to identify and overcome the roofing defect challenges faced in the industry and receive clear guidance on identifying and avoiding common design, application, and aesthetic roof defects in real-life roofing projects.
If you can’t make the session, or want to know more, Garland have written ‘Common Roofing Defects And How To Avoid Them’
SWPA AGM!
Key members of SWPA have come together to form our steering committee to determine the future direction of SWPA and help create practical and useful procurement solutions. Join us to find out more about what we achieved last year and a look forward at what’s to come.
This is a by invitation only event, but any public sector organisation interested the benefits of SWPA membership can find out more here, or can contact emily.bull@swpa.org.uk to register your place.
Five Ways Procurement Can Improve Building Safety
The political spotlight has remained firmly fixed on building safety in the first half of 2022. While progress towards the Hackitt Review recommendations is slowly being made, there is a continued need to revisit and reform processes at procurement level and through the whole supply chain.
In Conversation with Ian Williams
Ian Williams are on multiple SWPA frameworks covering Passive Fire Protection, and Communal Doorsets - find out more about them in this blog.
Sensory Spaces: An Architect’s Guide to Designing for Children With Autism
According to a 2018 survey by the American Centre for Disease Control, 1 in 59 children are diagnosed with autism compared to 1 in 150 in 2000. Regardless of whether autism is becoming more pervasive or accurate diagnosis and awareness are on the rise, the fact remains that more people are known to be living with autism than ever before.
Seven important changes within the Transforming Public Procurement Green Paper
The Government’s recently published Transforming Public Procurement (TPP) Green Paper consultation response shows determination to put alternative assessment scoring front-and-centre over price, to drive both equity and economic improvement.
Intelligent Procurement Solutions for the Education Sector!
SWPA have complied some key frameworks for the education sector to help maintain healthy schools and other learning environments!
Housing LGBTQ+
To celebrate Pride Month 2022 SWPA have been looking into housing for LGBTQ+ people, some of the problems they face, and possible solutions.
1,000 Homes for the Future Will Benefit South West Residents
Magna Housing and Wiltshire Council have joined forces to address the housing crisis, appointing offsite manufacturing company Rollalong via the South West Procurement Alliance (SWPA) Offsite Construction of New Homes framework, to build nearly 1,000 new homes over the next three years.
The Benefits of MMC & Procurement Barriers to Adoption
The need for new housing has never been greater and with the Government aiming to deliver 300,000 new homes per year by mid-2020’s there needs to be a radical change in the way new homes are built. There’s some consensus around increasing housing supply to address the backlog of housing need, but there’s less agreement about how best to achieve it.
Supplier Spotlight!
This quarter, we wanted to highlight Premier Modular! They are appointed to the Modular Buildings (MB2) framework, to promote themselves and the framework they wrote a blog ‘How offsite technology is transforming UK construction’ for the SWPA website!
Any SWPA appointed company can write blogs for us and advertise events through our website. If you are interested in doing this contact Emily Bull, emily.bull@swpa.org.uk.
New Opportunities with SWPA and LHC!
There are currently lots of new opportunities with SWPA and our central hub, LHC! We have frameworks in the pre-tender stage for Consultancy Services (CS1), and Modern Methods of Construction for New Homes (NH3) which has a wider scope than the previous framework including principal contractors!
We attended a meet the buyer event with Wilshire Council, and Magna Housing to promote the new Modern Methods of Construction for New Homes (NH3) and to encourage principal contractors and groundworkers to apply! If you missed the event but would like to know more contact kaye.wills@swpa.org.uk and phillip.blackmore@swpa.org.uk.
And of course, our Whole House (WH) and Low Carbon Offsite Housing (LCH) DPS’ can be applied for at any time!
