Contract for New Build Council Housing Pilot in the London Borough of Redbridge

Redbridge is suffering from a severe housing shortage and this shortage is particularly acute in the affordable housing sector. Therefore the Housing Service has been identifying small sites held within the Housing Revenue Account which it can bring forward for development to help address the shortage.  The Authority is therefore initiating a pilot project for the provision of new build council housing on three sites in its ownership.

The Council is seeking through this tender process for developer/contractors to submit their designs, method statements and estimated costs for the three sites as set out in the brief.  These submissions will then be evaluated as set out in the evaluation criteria and scoring matrix to determine the successful tenderer.

The Council will then instruct the successful tenderer to develop detailed designs and submit a fixed price for the development of each site. Subject to the Council’s acceptance that the fixed price is reasonable in relation to the estimates submitted in this tender and is within its budget it will enter into a JCT Design and Build Contract 2011 with the successful tenderer.