BHCC HP Commercial & Agricultural Portfolio Estate Management - AWARD

Brighton & Hove City Council ('the Council') requires a Service Provider to provide a comprehensive estate management service to include strategic advice and support for the council's policy development for the estate as well as covering the day-to-day management of the portfolio and the preparation of budgets and financial statements regarding income and expenditure. The council requires that the portfolio is managed to produce the maximum financial benefit to the council, in a commercial and professional manner. At the same time the Service Provider will need to be balance this approach with the objectives of promoting social, environmental and economic well being as set out in the Corporate Plan and the Corporate Property Strategy and Asset Management Plan and other relevant council plans and policies.

This framework agreement is in two Lots, split as (i) Commercial portfolio and (ii) Agricultural portfolio and will start 02 April 2018 and will run for four years, ending 31 March 2022.

From 01 April 2017 the Council became a founding partner of Orbis, a Public Sector Partnership between the Council, East Sussex County Council and Surrey County Council. The partnership was formed to:

• odrive efficiencies through increased standardisation and removal of duplication
• opool resources, expertise and knowledge to identify best practice approaches that best meet the need of our customers
• ocreate greater operational resilience
• odeliver greater value for money, placing customers at the heart of everything that we do
• oimprove accessibility of services to the customer through a self-sufficiency approach

In the spirit of the partnership therefore, East Sussex County Council and Surrey County Council will be able to call-off this framework agreement. This will mainly occur when their existing estate manager is unable to fulfil the requirement. The Council will act as Framework Agreement Administrator and each participating public body will manage their own requirement.