£350m Edinburgh home framework: procurement and delivery notes for project teams
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
A £350m first-lot framework to deliver part of Edinburgh’s 25,000-home New Build Housing programme is now live, with site sub-lots of 1–30, 31–100 and over 100 units structured to draw in SMEs rather than only major contractors. Fleming Buildings, A S Homes and Campion Homes secured the smallest-site band, while CCG, McTaggart, Cruden, Robertson and Ogilvie feature on the larger two bands, under a wider £600m framework. Bids were scored 70% on quality and 30% on cost, with Arcadis providing external cost evaluation and all contractors required to pay the council’s real living wage.
Technical Brief
- Lot 1 of the New Build Housing Framework is valued at approximately £350m within a £600m programme.
- Framework is intended to support delivery of up to 25,000 new affordable homes across Edinburgh.
- Council has allocated a record £1.6bn to housebuilding in the current budget cycle.
- External cost consultant Arcadis undertook independent price evaluations for all framework bids.
- Quality assessments were carried out by the council’s internal development and regeneration team.
- Real living wage commitment is mandated for both principal contractors and all sub‑contractors on framework call‑offs.
- For similar municipal housing pipelines, this split‑lot framework model reduces procurement lead times and concentrates cost benchmarking.
Our Take
The three sub-lot bands in Lot 1 (from single-home infill up to 100+ units) effectively create a structured route for smaller players such as Fleming Buildings and A S Homes to compete alongside larger groups like Ogilvie Construction on appropriately scaled sites, which tends to diversify delivery capacity and reduce single-contractor dependency risk for the council.
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