EEM0071 Vacant Property Services Framework

Efficiency East Midlands Ltd (EEM) is a procurement consortium which establishes and manages a range of frameworks and DPS agreements. Our membership has now grown to over 367 members including organisations providing services to the whole public sector including housing associations, local authorities, NHS Trusts, Education Providers and Emergency Services.

EEM have conducted a tender exercise for the renewal of our existing Void Property Services Framework, which expired in December 2024.

The Framework agreement will be for a period of 48 months and will run from 16th December 2024 to 15th December 2028 .

• Lot 1 of this Framework covers clearing and cleaning (Sublot1 - Midlands, Sublot 2 - National Coverage).
• Lot 2 of this Framework covers the security services and call handling (Sublot1 - Midlands, Sublot 2 - National Coverage).
• Lot 3 of this Framework covers all services from Lot 1 and Lot 2 as well as a turn-key vacant property management service (Sublot1 - Midlands, Sublot 2 - National Coverage).

Additional information: The call-off contract's to be awarded pursuant to the Framework Agreements to be entered at conclusion of the procurement exercise begun by publication of the Contract Notice may extend for a duration of up to five years beyond expiry of the four-year term of the Framework Agreement.

Please note that the total potential framework value stated within this notice is in relation to the full 4-year framework and takes into consideration the lot structure, length of call off contracts and that the EEM membership may grow over the framework lifetime.

Where the contract notice states a maximum of suppliers to be

appointed to the Framework. EEM reserves the right to appoint less than the numbers stated. This framework is being procured by Efficiency East Midlands Ltd (EEM) on behalf of their members and the other organisations described below as being authorised users. The following contracting authorities will be entitled to agree and award contracts under this framework agreement as Authorised Users:

1. any Member of EEM which for the avoidance of doubt currently includes 3 partner consortia -

West Works (https://www.westworks.org.uk)

Advantage South West(https://www.advantagesouthwest.co.uk and South East Consortium

(https://www.southeastconsortium.org.uk)

A full list of current members is available at www.eem.org.uk

2. any future member of EEM or our partner consortia and in all cases being an organisation which has applied to join EEM or our partner consortia in accordance with the applicable constitutional documents;
3. An EEM participant being an organisation which is neither a current or EEM member (as defined at 1 above) nor a future member of EEM (as defined at 2 above). Further details regarding the authorised users of this framework can be found in the ITT documents.