HCA appoints one-stop-shop partner panel
8 January 2010
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A variety of house builders, contractors and development consortia have been appointed to the Homes and Communities Agency’s (HCA) new Delivery Partner Panel, it was announced today.
Aimed at streamlining development on publicly-owned land, the panel is divided into three clusters – northern, central and southern – to provide full national coverage. In addition to working on the HCA’s own projects, panel members will be made available to Local Authorities, Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) and other public agencies to deliver new homes through programmes such as Local Authority New Build and Public Land Initiative.
Eamonn Boylan, director of New Ventures and Partnerships at the Homes and Communities Agency said: "We hope that this panel will help speed up the procurement process for public sector agencies by providing access to a pre-qualified list of organisations that can assist with all stages of the development process. From finance and funding of development, design and construction to sales and marketing, the panel can now be used to procure both physical development works and related services in the early stages of a development project."
To procure through the panel, public agencies will be required to sign up to a letter of agreement with the HCA and set up a separate framework contract between themselves and panel members. The panel is operational with immediate effect until 3 January 2013.
Eamonn Boylan added: "This panel supports our aim of encouraging new entrants into the housing market. Several construction firms have been successful, many bringing with them experience of the planning system and of partnerships with the public sector through Building Schools for the Future and the health sector's LIFT programme, for example. House builders and mixed-use developers also competed intensely to join the panel, recognising the opportunity to widen their business in a difficult market by working on a more contractual basis for public land owners in future."
The panel members are:
| Northern Cluster |
| Ardmore First Base Partnership Barratt Developments Plc Carillion Igloo Consortium Cecil M Yuill Ltd Countryside Properties (UK) Ltd Galliford Try Plc Gentoo Group Ltd Great Places Housing Group Headcrown Group Plc Keepmoat Ltd Laing O'Rourke Construction Limited Lend Lease Europe Holdings Ltd Lovell Partnerships Miller Homes Ltd Seddon Group Limited Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd Wates Construction Ltd |
| Central Cluster |
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Barratt Developments Plc |
| Southern Cluster |
| Ardmore First Base Partnership Barratt Developments Plc Bouygues UK Ltd Carillion Igloo Consortium Countryside Properties (UK) Ltd Crest Nicholson Operations Limited Family Mosaic Home Ownership Limited Galliford Try Plc Hadley Mace Limited (consortium) The Leadbitter Consortium Kier Group plc Laing O'Rourke Construction Limited Lovell Partnerships Ltd Mi-Space (UK) Ltd Skanska Construction UK Ltd Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd Wates Construction Ltd |
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For media enquiries: Gemma Thompson, HCA press office on 020 7881 1054 or email gemma.thompson@hca.gsx.gov.uk. For non media enquiries please email: deliverypartnerinfo@hca.gsx.gov.uk
Notes to Editors
A factsheet offering further information about the delivery partner panel and its uses is available to download from www.homesandcommunities.co.uk/publications
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) is the single, national housing and regeneration delivery agency for England. Our role is to create opportunity for people to live in high quality, sustainable places. We provide funding for affordable housing, bring land back into productive use and improve quality of life by raising standards for the physical and social environment.
For more information visit www.homesandcommunities.co.uk