Worth £500m over six years, the Multi-disciplinary Consultancy Services Framework (MDC1) is available to public sector organisations across two of LHC’s divisions; CPC, which covers the North of England, the Midlands and Anglia, and LSE, covering London and South East.
Gary Cawley, CPC Regional Director welcomes the new construction framework with 12 workstreams — which can be used by a wide range of public sector clients including local authorities; registered social landlords; tenant management organisations and arm’s length management organisations; health authorities; councils, boards, and trusts; publicly funded schools and further education establishments, and registered charities:
“This framework l enables these organisations to access high quality pre-approved suppliers to achieve a compliant asset management regime across a range of buildings including education, healthcare and service stations, community buildings, residential properties (when part of a mixed-use development), commercial to residential conversions, and their associated works.”
Ethan James, LSE Acting Regional Manager, said: “This is the first time we have offered a framework like this to our region, which has been designed to provide a comprehensive range of high-quality consultancy services across multiple disciplines to the public sector for projects of all sizes. Not only does it meet client need and truly reflect the current market, but it also offers something more.”
“Bidders were evaluated based on scenarios reflecting real life situations that clients would encounter, assessing areas such as customer service, site and procurement risk, flexibility and sensitivity to differing needs, such as EDI matters.”
“In that way we can increase equal opportunity, reduce barriers to entry for smaller businesses, and appoint companies with diverse leadership and workforces that reflect the regions and communities that the framework will serve.”
The tenders were evaluated on a 70% quality and 30% price split using ‘deviation from mean’ formulas instead of the usual best price rank. This was to make the framework as balanced as possible and even the playing field for micro-SMEs, small enterprises, and medium to large companies.
MDC1’s workstreams cover: architecture, building services engineers, building surveyors, clerks of works, quantity surveyors, employers agents, planning consultancies, principal designers, project management, structural engineering, civil engineering, and multi-discipline services.
All appointed companies are registered and qualified organisations with experience of working to the requirements of insurance companies, and any organisation which is bound to procure under the PCR2015 can access this framework.
The full list of appointed companies (in alphabetical order) is:
Academy Consulting Solutions Limited
ADP Architecture Limited
AHR Building Consultancy
Airey Miller Ltd
Allies Morrison
Architecture00 Ltd
Arcus Consulting LLP
Aura Newcastle Ltd
Austin-SmithLord LLP
Autor Ltd
Avanti Architects Ltd
Bailey Partnership (Consultants LLP)
Baily Garner LLP
BDP
Beta Design Consultants
Betteridge & Milsom
Blakeney Leigh Ltd
BPP Construction Consultants
BPTW
Buro Happold
Butler & Young Associates
ByrneLooby Partners Limited
Calfordseaden LLP
Campbell Reith Hill LLP
Capital Property & Construction Consultants Ltd
Caulmert Ltd
Clancy Consulting Ltd
Costplan Services (South East) Ltd
Couch Perry Wilkes
Currie & Brown UK Limited
Curtins Consulting Ltd
Daniel Connal LLP
Daykin Marshall Studio
Desco (Design & Consultancy) Ltd
DMR Surveyors Ltd
DSDHA
ECD Architects
Egniol Consulting Limited
Elvet Construction Consultants
Faithful+Gould
Faithorn Farrell Timms
Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects
Fusion Project Management Ltd
Gladstone Consulting Ltd TA Safety Advisors
Glancy Nicholls Architects Ltd
Gleeds Management Services Limited
Gotch Saunders & Surridge ta
GSS Architecture
Haworth Tompkins Ltd
Hayhurst and Co
HBL Associates
Hickton Consultants
HKS Architects Limited
Hunters
IK Consulting Engineers Ltd
Initiate Consulting Limited
Jestico + Whiles + Associates Ltd
John Rowan and Partners LLP
JPN Projects Ltd
KAEBCA consortium
Karakusevic Carson
Keegans Ltd
Kier Business Services Ltd
Levitt Bernstein Associates
LSI Architects (Design) Limited
Malachy Walsh & Partners
Marcel Hendricks & Partners Ltd
Marstan BDB LLP
Martin Arnold Limited
McBains Cooper
MESH Construction Consultancy
Method Consulting LLP
Metropolitan Workshop
Michael Dyson Associates Limited
Moll Architects
Montagu Evans LLP
MPN UK LIMITED
One Consulting Group
Perega
Pick Everard
Pierce Hill Project Services Ltd
PinnacleESP
Playle & Partners LLP
Potter Raper Ltd
Price & Myers LLP
Pulse Associates Ltd
Quaye Services Ltd
Quod
Rapleys LLP
RCKa
RG+P
Richard Jackson Ltd
Ridge and Partners LLP
RISE MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
Rock Townsend
Rund Partnership Ltd
Silver DCC
Stace LLP
Stantec UK Ltd
Starris Projects Ltd
Storm Tempest
Structa LLP
Summers Inman Construction and Property Consultants
The Fulker Consultancy Limited
Thomas & Thomas
Tisserin Engineers
TOCA
Turley Limited
Turner & Townsend Project Management Limited
Ward Williams Associates
Watts Group Limited
Waugh Thistleton Architects
Welling Partnership Property and Construction Consultants
Wren Architecture & Design Ltd
WT Partnership
The framework will run from 11th January 2022 until 10th January 2028.
More information on the framework is available here.
