CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address

1.2

Address from which documentation may be obtained

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Completed documents must be returned to:

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

Local Housing Market Assessment (LHMA)

2.2

Description of the goods or services required

Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council are required to prepare a new local housing market assessment for the authority area which will be used to underpin key local documents such as the Council’s Replacement Local Development Plan, Local Housing Strategy, and other corporate documents.

The updated assessment will be required to satisfy Welsh Government’s Local Housing Market Assessment guidance published in March 2022: https://gov.wales/local-housing-market-assessment-lhma-guidance-local-authorities

NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=131320

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Notice Coding and Classification

2.4

Total quantity or scope of tender

The main objectives are:

• To provide robust evidence to inform the Council’s Housing Strategy, Replacement Local Development Plan and other relevant strategies.

•To identify appropriate Housing Market Areas (HMAs) and provide detailed market analysis of housing need, demand and supply by ward, housing market area and local authority boundary.

•To identify how housing need and demand translates into different sizes, types and tenures in different housing market areas.

•To identify the key drivers of housing need and demand of both market housing and affordable housing, with consideration to affordability of accommodation, the impact of welfare reform, economic growth, and the potential effects of other current and emerging policies.

•To enable local authority officers to update and monitor the evidence base as new data becomes available, and to undertake updates as required by Welsh Government guidance (i.e. to ensure effective annual monitoring is possible and to enable the Council to refresh the LHMA between years 2 and 3).

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

4.2

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

ITT_102594

4.3

Time Limits

4.5

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

4.6

Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

This Procurement exercise is being run by the Authority's e-tendering portal Bravo Solutions https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk.

All documentation has been uploaded to enable direct access following registration.

NB: You must download all documentation directly from the portal, tender documents will not be communicated by any other means.

E-Tender access information:

— Go to https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk.

— The first person from your Organisation to use the Platform will be required to register on behalf of the Organisation.

— On registering on the Platform the Super User will select a Username and will receive a password.

— The Password will be sent by e-mail to the e-mail address that was specified in the User Details section of the Registration page.

— In order to log-in to the Platform please enter your Username and Password.

— Contact the Helpdesk immediately if you are unable to contact the Super User (for example if they have left your Organisation).

— Note: If your Organisation is already registered on the Platform then you must not make any additional registration.

Please contact the Helpdesk to gain access to the Platform.

— The Help desk is available Monday-Friday: 8:00-18:00.

Telephone: +44 8003684852 e-mail: help@bravosolution.co.uk

— Tenders must be uploaded to the Bravo Solution portal by 12:00 noon 31st May 2023.

How to find the ITT:

— Once logged in you must click on ‘ITT's Open to all Suppliers'.

— The Etender references for this contract are: Project_53343 and ITT_102594.

— Click on the title to access summary details of the contract. If you are still interested in submitting a tender, click the ‘Express an Interest button'. This will move the ITT from the ‘Open to all Suppliers' area to the ‘My ITT's' on the home page.

— You will then see the full details of the ITT in the Qualification, Technical and Commercial envelopes along with any relevant documents in the ‘Attachments' area.

— Tenderers are required to provide responses to:

—the Selection Questionnaire within the Qualification Envelope

—the Method Statements within the Technical Envelope

—upload the requested Pricing information within the Commercial Envelope.

— Should you have any questions on the ITT, please use the ‘Messages' area to contact the buyer directly - Do not contact the named person at the top of this notice.

Deadlines for submissions is 12 noon the 31st May 2023 with clarifications allowed until 5:00pm on the 23rd May 2023.

(WA Ref:131320)

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Additional Documentation

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Publication date of this notice