Constructor gets on £2m-plus housing framework
BARDSLEY Construction has been appointed to major framework agreements for the provision of affordable housing, specialist care facilities and public buildings across the North of England and the Midlands.
The Greater-Manchester based family-owned business has been appointed to Lot 3 of the Re:Allies framework for all works worth in excess of £2m and with a projected spend of £384m over four years for the delivery of affordable housing and public buildings in the North West, Yorkshire and the north Midlands.
Re:Allies is a partnership of housing consortia striving to be recognised as the first choice in social housing procurement by delivering social and commercial value to registered social housing providers, communities and local economies.
The Re:Allies partnership includes Manchester-based Procure Plus, a commercial, not-for-profit company specialising in the procurement of goods and services for about 40 clients in the North West of England consisting largely of registered social housing providers; fficiency North, a Rotherham-based consortium of 21 social housing providers throughout Yorkshire and the Humber with a total combined housing stock of more than 300,000 homes representing about 70 per cent of the entire social housing stock in the region and Birmingham-based Central Housing Consortium with a membership of about 40 social housing providers in England and Wales.
The second major framework agreement sees Bardsley appointed by The Abbeyfield Society, a national charity based in St Albans, Hertfordshire that provides housing, support and care for people in later life, to Lot 2 North of its framework to deliver schemes worth more than £8m with a projected spend of about £100m nationwide.
Bardsley is currently providing a £10.4m development for Abbeyfield on the site of the former Bingley Hospital, Bradford that will feature 47 one and two-bedroom apartments, a dementia wing with 30 individual rooms for the care of residents and a day centre for community use by the elderly.
Ged Rooney, procurement director at Bardsley Construction, said: “Our appointment to these major framework agreements enhances and embeds our long established and widely respected record of working in partnership with social housing and specialist care providers in the north of England and extends our sphere of influence to the north Midlands.”
