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MINISTRY OF HOUSING, COMMUNITIES & LOCAL GOVERNMENT

CPD/004/119/220; MHCLG - Design manual development - Planning Practice Guidance - Contract

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71315200 71410000 79415200
Value£49k
Awarded4 Apr 2019
Published7 Jul 2019
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£49ktotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.0m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Engineering & Architecture band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

The brief

This contract has already been awarded and is published for transparency purposes.

The role of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is to create great places to live and work, and to give more power to local people to shape what happens in their area.

The contract was awarded following an open procurement via Contracts Finder.

This contract relates to the following services: 1.1 MHCLG is producing design guidance as part of the Planning Practice Guidance (PPG) to support the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).

1.2 MHCLG requires a specialist to help develop a visual Design Manual to support the revised Design PPG, including illustrations for design principles and projects.

1.3 The objective is to develop an easy to use toolkit that local planning authorities, developers, built environment professionals and other agencies involved in the design of the built environment can use to ensure quality is embedded in policies, programmes and projects.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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1.1 MHCLG is producing design guidance as

1.1 MHCLG is producing design guidance as part of the Planning Practice Guidance (PPG) to support the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).

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1.2 MHCLG requires a specialist to help

1.2 MHCLG requires a specialist to help develop a visual Design Manual to support the revised Design PPG, including illustrations for design principles and projects.

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1.3 The objective is to develop

1.3 The objective is to develop an easy to use toolkit that local planning authorities, developers, built environment professionals and other agencies involved in the design of the built environment can use to ensure quality is embedded in policies, programmes and projects.

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OCID
c28dc556-6b09-4800-bc14-c787cf409cd7
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
CPD/004/119/220
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