Invitation To Tender (ITT) for the Commission of a Strategic Housing Market Assessment for Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall, Wolverhampton & South Staffordshire Councils - AWARD

Invitation To Tender (ITT) for the Commission of a Strategic Housing Market Assessment for Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall, Wolverhampton & South Staffordshire Councils

This is an Invitation to tender with information, instructions and guidance provided. If you are interested in submitting a tender and have opted in, Part B should be completed and returned with your tender submission by all tenderers for the requirement described in the following pages.

The four Black Country local planning authorities of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire District Council, are seeking to commission a Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA) to support forthcoming reviews of the Black Country Core Strategy and South Staffordshire Local Plan. The SHMA should also be able to inform the development of local housing strategies and the commissioning of new affordable and other housing products in each authority area.

The SHMA should provide an assessment of the objectively assessed local housing need for each authority and the SHMA area as a whole, and identify the scale and mix of housing and the range of tenures that the local population is likely to need over the plan period, in accordance with the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), National Planning Guidance (PPG) and other national guidance. This will include that emerging as a result of the Housing and Planning Bill (for example changes to the definition of affordable housing including starter homes, and the need for care homes, caravans and houseboats). More details of the expected outcomes are set out below.

The SHMA should identify the likely needs for different types of housing over the period of the proposed plans, which is expected to be 2016-2036.

The Council will be using the In-tend e-Tendering System for this Procurement exercise, please visit https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sandwellmbc to access the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal.

From here you will be able to register your company, express an interest in the opportunity, and gain immediate access to the ITT and other related documents.

In Order To View the On-Line Questionnaire and Submit a Tender, you will be required to` Opt-In`.

Please be mindful that if you are cut and pasting your question responses onto the On-Line Questionnaire that you do so from a notepad document, this is due to the fact that some special characters are not accepted within the On-Line Questionnaire.

For a Step by Step user guide to the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal please click on the `Guidance for Suppliers` section of the website. All procurement responses must be carried out via the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal.

If you require further assistance in respect of the system please contact the In-tend support team on 0844 272 8810.

Closing date: Friday 15 April 2016 at 15:00hrs