Northern Housing Consortium

The Northern Housing Consortium (NHC) is a non-profit making and non political membership organisation. Full membership is drawn from Local Authorities, LSVTs, ALMOs, RSLs, and other organisations involved in housing, from across the three Northern Government Office regions of the North East, North West and Yorkshire & Humberside.

Northern Housing Consortium's primary role is to support and represent their members, who, between them, are responsible for 86% of social housing in the North. They do this through the provision of a range of products and services aimed at ensuring that the interests of the North are fully consulted, represented and served at sub-regional, regional and national level. NHC were instrumental in establishing the three Northern Regional Housing Forums and continue to work very closely with the forums to enhance sub-regional and regional partnerships and to heighten the profile of the three Northern regions, in terms of funding and developments.

Consortium Procurement is the team at the Northern Housing Consortium, responsible for the development and delivery of business solutions to meet the needs of its membership. These solutions are Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) compliant collaborative framework agreements, let under the European Union Procurement Directive, and accessible by any current or future Consortium member organisation.

The NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (NHS PASA) was identified as the key delivery agent to develop and manage a procurement framework to assist service commissioners in the procurement of telecare products and services and NHS PASA and the Consortium agreed to work together to facilitate the running of a Mini Competition under the National Framework Agreement.

The Consortium's mini competition framework, in conjunction with NHS PASA, has delivered a four year national framework agreement in support of the Department of Health's vision of building a strong assistive technology infrastructure covering:

  • Telecare
  • Telehealth
  • Installation
  • Maintenance
  • Monitoring
  • Response

In partnership with Tunstall, Consortium Procurement is able to offer an OJEU compliant assistive technology framework which allows members to interact with their selected partner(s) without the need for further competition saving you valuable resources such as time and money.

For further information on how Consortium Procurement can help you with the delivery of assistive technology please contact a member of the Business Development team on (0191) 566 1000 or email solutions@consortiumprocurement.org.uk

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