How collaborative procurement could transform the housing sector

Questions

1 What benefits can collaborative procurement bring to major housing projects?

2 How can partnership models provide social value for communities?

3 What are the challenges of collaborative procurement?

4 How can partnership models help landlords build trust with their contractors and tenants?

5 How can a culture of collaboration be fostered within housing organisations?

6 How has the North East Housing Partnership had a positive impact on local communities?

7 How can collaborative procurement contribute to net zero targets?

8 What advice do you have for housing associations looking to partner on procurement?

The potential benefits of collaborative procurement – where multiple providers of social and affordable housing work together to buy services collectively – are coming into sharper focus as landlords plan major investment programmes across their homes, from retrofit to wider asset renewal. Instead of organisations procuring separately, a collaborative approach brings partners together to align on priorities, pool their demand and work with suppliers over longer-term, more strategic programmes to deliver at scale.

This marks a shift from more traditional procurement approaches, which are often undertaken on an individual organisational basis
and, in some cases, can be fragmented. Inside Housing speaks to Drew Frame, head of procurement at not-for-profit procurement organisation NHC Procurement, and Laura Balaam Wiseman, collaboration director at procurement expert Prosper, about how these procurement partnerships work in practice and what they could mean for the future of the housing sector.

Drew Frame

Head of procurement, NHC Procurement

How collaborative procurement could transform the housing sector

Questions

1 What benefits can collaborative procurement bring to major housing projects?

2 How can partnership models provide social value for communities?

3 What are the challenges of collaborative procurement?

4 How can partnership models help landlords build trust with their contractors and tenants?

5 How can a culture of collaboration be fostered within housing organisations?

6 How has the North East Housing Partnership had a positive impact on local communities?

07 How can collaborative procurement contribute to
net zero targets?

08 What advice do you have for housing associations looking to partner on procurement?

The potential benefits of collaborative procurement – where multiple providers of social and affordable housing work together to buy services collectively – are coming into sharper focus as landlords plan major investment programmes across their homes, from retrofit to wider asset renewal. Instead of organisations procuring separately, a collaborative approach brings partners together to align on priorities, pool their demand
and work with suppliers over
longer-term, more strategic programmes to deliver at scale.

This marks a shift from more traditional procurement approaches, which are
often undertaken on an individual organisational basis and, in some cases, can be fragmented. Inside Housing speaks to Drew Frame, head of procurement at not-for-profit procurement organisation NHC Procurement, and Laura Balaam Wiseman, collaboration director at procurement expert Prosper, about how these procurement partnerships work in practice and what they could mean for the future of the housing sector.

Drew Frame

Head of procurement, NHC Procurement