We know that Housing Associations across the United Kingdom share the same goal - to provide affordable homes and support for local communities. This is why we’ve collated a handful of our Smart Solutions agreements, best suited to you, in one easy-to-access place.
Introducing Smart Solutions
Smart Solutions has been developed to allow third sector companies the chance to benefit from ESPO’s years of experience within procurement. Our aim is to provide a simple route to complex procurement projects, no matter what the size or budget. With over 60 frameworks created by industry leading experts, there is something for everyone.
Buildings
Provides access to over 90 services covering everything from security and maintenance pest control and specialist services.
Lots are structured by customer spend to ensure access to the right level of suppliers.
Offers individual services or a total facilities management solution.
Provides access to a range of flexible suppliers that can tailor their offering to your requirements.
Services include general, deep, specialist and window cleaning services.
Includes the option to purchase or lease decontaminations systems for HPV and UVC.
Energy
ESPO acts as an intermediary to buy electricity in the wholesale market on your behalf.
Our team will work with you to align the contract end dates of your entire portfolio.
Contract based on a fixed supplier margin for contract length.
Fleet and Highways
Offers access to a vast range of vehicle charging infrastructure solutions from well-known suppliers.
Includes specific Lot for service and maintenance and consultancy services.
Includes specific emerging technology Lot featuring market leaders in the bus and opportunity charger market.
For the rental of a variety of generic vehicles such as cars, minibuses and HGV vehicles, on a short to medium term basis.
The rental of vehicles can assist in reducing ‘grey fleet’ usage.
New vehicle types, such as electric, can be hired on a short term basis before committing to purchase or long term lease.
Documents & IT
Waste & Environment
Provides access to a range of document management solutions including consultancy, deep storage and scanning of old and rare documents.
Includes Lot dedicated to enhanced handling and security requirements – ideal for sensitive data.
Suppliers comply with a range of accreditations including ISO 9001 and ISO 27001.
Non-domestic Community Waste and Recycling Collection And Disposal Services
Offers route to most common waste and recycling services as well as a food waste service.
Regular, ad-hoc and emergency collection services are available.
A process has been put in place to assure you cannot be automatically charged for overweight bins, the weight must be monitored over a set time period.
People & Professional Services
Provides a wide range of HR services including temporary and permanent recruitment.
Suppliers range from large recruitment companies to smaller specialist agencies, including international recruitment.
Direct award option is available for urgent requirements.
Obtain trustworthy advice from suppliers about areas such as housing and housing support, social care and health and safety.
Multiple strategic project services available and the option to utilise suppliers that offer multidisciplinary services.
Framework has over 170 suppliers across 10 specialist Lots.
Offers a quick and simple route to accessing managed training services.
Includes Lot designed to appoint a single supplier to manage training requirements and ultimately streamline the process.
A separate Lot is designed to provide learning management systems to support administration, tracking, reporting etc.
