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YTKO unlocks £1.1bn construction innovation for the South West
YTKO has launched a new £1.1 billion procurement framework with their new Constructing Modern Methods product.
With the aim to unlock offsite, low carbon, housing, the group developed the framework in partnership with the Bristol Housing Festival, Bristol City Council and nine modular housing providers.
The solution to the housing crisis was to build a database that could allow local authorities to analyse the marketplace and define their requirements before procuring against a dynamic purchasing system (DPS).
Constructing Modern Methods lead, Philip Stott, said: “Several Local Authorities have found that they want to use these new offsite systems for meeting their housing needs but have no idea where to start.”
“There is a huge variety of offerings in the marketplace from panel systems to full homes arriving on backs of lorries and they all have strengths. Our database helps the user in the local authority to understand this market quickly and then provide a robust, and importantly compliant, procurement process so they can tender against the values which matter to them.”
The Dynamic Purchasing System combined with the CMM tool will enable social housing providers to input their specific requirements and match them against a list of approved offsite suppliers to provide an affordable housing solution.
Mary Bennell, who is the director at SWPA, commented: “This is much more than just launching another procurement solution for offsite/MMC housing.
“It is about driving real innovation in how we create outcome-led procurement, something which the Government is keen to implement in its recently published Playbook.”
“The size of the procurement DPS reflects the scale of ambition in the region and we expect to see at least £1.1 billion of MMC housing delivered over the next 8 years,” she added.
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