CHIC has once again partnered with our specialist legal services agent Kennedy Cater to deliver our new legal services framework, comprising of a panel of 22 leading housing law firms. This new 4-year framework will replace the existing framework which commenced in 2016. It has been developed to create significant saving for all of our members with more than 200 fixed-fee deals, plus hourly rates at an average 30% discount on firms’ standard charges.

Our route to market has demonstrated significant efficiencies, generating over £1.4m of savings for our members from the expiring framework.

The new framework divides legal services into 3 separate workstream lots, with a range of firms available for each lot:

Each lot has an extensive list of fixed price services, fully reflective of the range of legal services that all registered providers may require. Members can directly select lawyers and/or conduct mini competitions. All of the legal firms were selected through a competitive OJEU tender process and demonstrated a robust service offer and cost competitive pricing.

Social value remains at the core of all our frameworks and contracts. All firms are able to provide a extensive range of value added and social value benefits such as training opportunities, advice to improve employability of tenants and community engagement.

If you would like to find out how to use our framework, please get in touch at enquiries@chicltd.co.uk

In Other News

We are very excited to announce that this year at HOMES UK, CHIC will be hosting a pavilion for our supply chain partners. CHIC is currently procuring partners for our new Fire Prevention Framework. On 25-26 November, we will be sharing why our members should be using our OJEU compliant route to market for fire prevention works, alongside an opportunity to meet the organisations that can be appointed directly or though mini competition. If you would like to find out more on our new framework, please get in touch at enquiries@chicltd.co.uk.

We would like to welcome new members that have joined CHIC over the past few months:

Mark Pinnell Joins CHIC’s Board of Directors

CHIC’s board has strenghthened member representation, appointing Mark Pinnell in June. Mark is the Executive Director of Assets and Development at Solihull Community Housing Group. Mark began his career in Engineering becoming a production engineer in the Automotive industry. Mark joined Solihull Council in April 2001 as an   Emergency Building Surveyor and has successfully progressed to his current role. He is also a board member at St Peter’s Housing Association (Saltley).