In line with an expansion of services, CHIC has made changes to its team structure to strengthen our support to members. We are pleased to announce that Sam Domican will be joining the CHIC team from 18th January as our new Head of Procurement and Commercial.
Sam will be leading our procurement activities, delivering the compliant procurement of new framework agreements, long term contracts and the DPS. He will oversee all framework mini-competitions, direct contract awards and DPS tenders and take responsibility for our ongoing supply chain relationships.
Sam has extensive professional experience in public procurement, as well as a wealth of knowledge of the wider housing and construction sectors.
We are also pleased to announce the appointment of Sarah Davey as CHIC’s new Head of Development. Sarah has experience of working both with the public and private sectors, as well as having considerable knowledge of construction and housing sectors. Sarah has worked in project management in the construction industry for the last sixteen years.
As Head of Development Services, she is the lead contact for CHIC’s new build services BuildSmart, providing access to contractors and consultants through a DPS and specifically aiming to promote MMC through a suite of off-Site manufacture supply and turnkey contractors
If you would like to get in touch with Sarah, please email sdavey@chicltd.co.uk or phone 07748 375181
For any other queries, please contact enquiries@chicltd.co.uk
In Other News
Raising money for Crisis
Last year and potentially for much of 2021, the pandemic has put many important events and socials gatherings on hold for us all. Although we couldn’t be together in one place, and despite being spread around the country, the CHIC team in collaboration with managing agent the ARK Consultancy set ourselves the challenge to (virtually) walk from Lands End to John O’Groats for the charity, Crisis in December. We chose to raise money for Crisis because we wanted to select a housing charity and even though 'Everybody In' has been one of the significant beneficial outcomes of the pandemic, we know homelessness has not gone away and so we wanted to play a small part in helping Crisis do the great work that they do.
Collectively we walked 1780 miles which means we made our way from Lands’ end, to John O’Groats (total 1111 miles) and then back to Birmingham!
So far, we have raised £1445, which is fantastic result and outperforming our expectations. A huge thank you to all that supported the cause, and to Victoria, Lesley, John and family for putting in the hard miles.
If you would like to donate to Crisis, please click here: https://www.crisis.org.uk/
New Members
We would like to welcome all of the new members that have joined CHIC over the past few months to access some of our services:
- South Lake Housing
- Westfield HA
- Settle Group
With these organisations, CHIC now has 117 members and is supporting over 300 individual projects.
CHIC’s DPS Solutions
CHIC already has a wide range of other contract and framework solutions (including merchants, compliance, planned works, planned materials, newbuild off-site manufacture and legal services). In case you missed the announcement, we are now able to offer the following DPS framework solutions to our members:
- Agency
- All Under One Roof
- Appliances
- Asbestos
- Cleaning
- Development
- Energy
- Grounds Maintenance
- Fire Protection & Sprinkler Systems
- Furniture and Floor Covering
- Lone Worker and Tracker
- Telecoms
- Total Facilities Management
We also have the following frameworks and contracts due to be released in 2021:
- Cladding Surveys & Removal - January 2021
- Lifting Equipment - April 2021
- Consultancy - April 2021
- Planned Materials - April 2021
- Asbestos - April 2021
- Compliance - April 2021
- Technical Auditing - April 2021
If you would like to find out more, please keep an eye on our website at: https://www.chicltd.co.uk/frameworks-suppliers.
Last month we launched our new website. It is designed for members to find the information you are looking for quickly and easily!
CHIC Conference 2021
Due to the current restriction in the UK, we have decided to defer this years conference to much later in 2021. However, we wouldn’t want our members to miss out on our mid-year content on 9th June. So, we will be running the usual keynote sessions as a CHIC Webinar instead, free for all CHIC members. Please watch this space for further updates and keep the date booked in your diaries.
