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For specialist contractors, consultants and service providers seeking to partner on the very frameworks where these issues are being addressed, our contract project offers a direct pathway to shape future procurement. The Procurement Act 2023 defines how frameworks structure call-offs for goods, services and works, allowing suppliers to align their offerings with public-sector needs (gov.uk). Crown Commercial Service frameworks, including RM6241 for housing maintenance and repair, remain open for supplier admission and permit bids on urgent and planned works across the UK (crowncommercial.gov.uk). Framework agreements create umbrella contracts that set out pricing, quality standards and performance metrics, enabling suppliers to deliver solutions that ensure compliance with modern transparency and equality duties (trackerintelligence.com). Open frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems now permit applications at predetermined points, giving agile SMEs the edge in securing public-sector contracts without waiting years for re-tendering rounds (procurementreform.co.uk). Small and medium enterprises that grasp these opportunities benefit from streamlined call-off competitions and lower entry barriers, making this an ideal moment to position your expertise in housing, transport or sustainability consultancy (supply2govtenders.co.uk). We invite you to contact us to learn how to submit your proposal and join our network of approved suppliers ahead of the next tender cycles.
UK TENDERS
From the Model Services Contract v2.1, I pulled out the clauses on due diligence, open-book data and transparency, performance indicators and service-improvement obligations, the exit-management and step-in rights, the modern slavery and sustainability covenants, and the whistleblowing and conflicts-of-interest provisions. These form the current gold standard for high-value, high-risk public-sector service agreements. By contrast, the contracts at the heart of our case lack comparable transparency mechanisms, enforceable service-continuity guarantees, and modern social-value requirements—making it easy to show that they fall short of best practice and have exposed tenants, commuters and consumers to unnecessary risk.
From the BT/PB model contract for private-service providers, I extracted the long-stop payment-mechanism architecture, the allocations of financial distress risk, the mandated performance-credit regime, and the hybrid concession structure that blends availability-based and usage-based fees. That template illustrates how a robust Public-Private Partnership should share risks, incentivize reliability, and embed dispute resolution—yet our PFI-style deals omit many of those features, undercutting both value-for-money and accountability.
The Public Sector Classification Guide supplied the official ONS determinations that DfT, BEIS, MHCLG/DLUHC and the Scottish Housing Regulator are all non-market public bodies (subsector S.1311 or S.1313). Locking in their status as public-sector actors confirms they cannot lawfully delegate away core statutory duties except within express legislative powers, bolstering our ultra vires and public-law misfeasance arguments.
Although the Current-PFI/PF2 project list and the VfM-QE spreadsheet were not directly machine-readable, they reveal the broad range of services procured under PF2—new schools, hospitals, roads, defence logistics and IT frameworks—with 25- to 35-year concessions valued in the hundreds of millions. They also confirm that government applies a 3.5 percent real discount rate plus health- and intergenerational exceptions, as set out in the Green Book. Armed with that, we can attack any use of higher discount rates or mis-modelled public-sector comparators in the tenders our protagonists ran, exposing flawed cost-benefit analyses.
Together, these extracts furnish us with the authoritative templates and benchmarks—on contract structure, risk allocation, social-value commitments, threshold tests and discount-rate rules—that our media campaign, unsolicited proposals and mediation strategy can deploy to show how the existing agreements deviate from best practice, lack lawful authority and have inflicted systemic harm on our class members.
Our analysis of current UK public-sector procurement pipelines has identified several active and forthcoming tender opportunities that align closely with our potential causes of action and proposed solutions. These include frameworks for housing repairs and maintenance, responsive disrepair and voids work, transport-infrastructure services such as bus-stop upgrades, electric-vehicle charging rollout, and legal-services panels. Each opportunity has its own application process and deadline, giving us specific windows in which to submit our Unsolicited Service Proposals (USPs) to public bodies or to seek subcontracting arrangements under existing frameworks.
Social Housing Repairs and Maintenance
The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham issued a Preliminary Market Engagement notice for “Housing Repairs 2027,” seeking suppliers to deliver emergency and planned responsive repairs, void refurbishments, damp and mould remediation, drainage and roofing works. Interested parties must complete the PME questionnaire by 11 April 2025, with the formal tender publication scheduled for 31 October 2025; this offers a direct route to influence the scope of their upcoming framework and to pitch our holistic disrepair–remediation services integrated with our policy-compliance solutions (find-tender.service.gov.uk).
Crown Commercial Service’s Dynamic Purchasing System RM6241 for Housing Maintenance and Repair remains open for supplier admission until its expiry on 27 October 2028. This DPS covers planned and responsive maintenance, essential compliance services (fire safety, electrical testing, asbestos), whole-home retrofit and portfolio management, providing an immediate channel for delivering energy-efficiency upgrades alongside urgent disrepair work (crowncommercial.gov.uk, crowncommercial.gov.uk).
Ark Housing Association’s “Repairs & Maintenance and Voids Framework 2025–2027” calls for contractors to service reactive repairs, cyclical maintenance, medical adaptations and adhoc capital works across three geographic lots in Scotland. Tenders must be submitted electronically via Public Contracts Scotland by 31 March 2025 at 12:00 pm, making this an imminent opportunity to offer our coordinated maintenance and equality-impact assessment services (find-tender.service.gov.uk).
Transport Infrastructure and Accessibility
Nottinghamshire County Council has extended its long-term bus-shelter advertising concession until 1 May 2025 under Regulation 43 of the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016. While not a direct tender, this variation highlights the Council’s reliance on integrated maintenance and advertising services and opens a narrow window to propose a replacement service model that combines high-quality shelter upkeep with equality-driven design reviews ahead of the concessions’ novation to the East Midlands Combined County Authority (find-tender.service.gov.uk).
Transport for Wales is inviting tenders under its “Bus Network Design System” procurement for a unified scheduling and evaluation platform capable of standardising timetabling and integrating accessibility data. Although published five months ago, stakeholders can still influence the network-design specifications by monitoring the Find a Tender notice for framework-agreement opportunities, positioning COCOO to supply both the technical design tools and equality-impact consultancy (find-tender.service.gov.uk).
Electric-Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
The Ministry of Defence published a pipeline notice for EV Charging Infrastructure (EVCI) main works on its UK sites via CCS DPS RM6213. Suppliers admitted to this DPS can bid for capital-works packages as they emerge, offering us a platform to deliver transparent cost-benefit modelling and Public Sector Equality Duty impact assessments alongside the physical installation of charging points (find-tender.service.gov.uk).
Nottinghamshire County Council’s “Second Midlands EV Infrastructure Consortium (SMeviC)” notice seeks a 50 kW on-street EV charging rollout funded by OZEV. Although this notice closed its invitation period three months ago, secondary lots and future tranches are expected; by registering our expertise now, we can participate in subsequent bids and offer community-engagement and non-discrimination design inputs (find-tender.service.gov.uk).
Legal Services and Advisory Panels
While RM3786 General Legal Advice Services has formally expired, central government continues to procure external legal expertise through successor frameworks. Closely related is the RM3786 Panel Agreement for “General Legal Services” (expired December 2021) and its successor RM6179 for major-project and advisory work. By monitoring CCS’s upcoming frameworks page and positioning our bespoke competition-law, housing-law and public-law practices, COCOO can secure a place on the next generation legal-panel agreements to advise on negligence, statutory-duty and equality-duty challenges (crowncommercial.gov.uk).
Next Steps and Time-Critical Actions
To ensure our USPs align with these tenders, we must:
- Complete and submit the Hammersmith Preliminary Market Engagement questionnaire by 11 April 2025.
- Apply to join or update our RM6241 DPS profile before 27 October 2028 to remain eligible for housing-maintenance call-offs.
- Tender electronically for the Ark Housing Framework by 31 March 2025 at 12:00 pm via Public Contracts Scotland.
- Prepare a targeted proposal for bus-shelter maintenance and design consultancy ahead of the May 2025 concession expiry.
- Register for forthcoming CCS legal frameworks and position our unique blend of public-law and competition-law services.
- Continue monitoring Find a Tender and Contracts Finder for network-design, EV charging and cyclical maintenance frameworks as they arise.
By mapping our solutions to these precise procurement windows and technical scopes, COCOO can embed its sustainability-law innovations into the very contracts that shape public-sector housing, transport, infrastructure and advisory services