Decision details

The Housing Growth and Regeneration Team wish to reprocure an RICS accredited firm of Chartered Surveyors to support and increase capacity in the team. The current arrangement is in place until February 2025. This reprocurement would be through the Crown Commercial Services framework and would commence March 2025.

The Council’s key objectives for this commission are;

·         To appoint RICS accredited Chartered Surveyors with specialisms in providing residential property development consultancy and valuation work who can work flexibly, within a changing environment.

·         To appoint a consultancy that can provide support to the Housing Growth and Regeneration Team, on wide range of technical residential property development, compulsory purchase, planning, affordable housing and valuation matters. This will be in relation to the sites allocated for Housing in the Local Plan and may be extended to other Council sites as well as land not currently in Council ownership regardless of the Local Plan allocation.

The Contract Award is due for early December 2024 and contract commencement is due for March 2025.

The contract is one year initially, with the provision to extend for a further x2 12-month periods (up to three years in total).

The project budget is up to £420,000 total.

Decision to appoint a Property Development Consultancy & Valuation Services advisor to support and increase capacity in the Housing Growth and Regeneration Team.