Social Housing PPP Bundle 6

Project Background

The Government’s “Housing for All” Plan aims to increase the use of PPPs to deliver social housing.

On the 22^nd June 2022, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien, welcomed the launch of Bundles 4 and 5 of the new Public Private Partnership (PPP) programme for social housing delivery. View press release for bundles 4 & 5

On the 9th January 2023, the Minister announced the launch of Bundle 6 in the programme. View press release for bundle 6

The Social Housing Public Private Partnership (PPP) Programme is designed to deliver:

• social housing developments via project ‘bundles’ of sites;
• the provision of services to the developments over a 25 year period following construction that will include the maintenance and upkeep of the housing and tenancy management services; and
• the return of the developments to the relevant local authorities after 25 years in a pre-defined condition.

The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is the approving authority for the programme with the NDFA as financial advisor, procuring authority and project manager, working closely with the relevant local authorities.

Bundle 6 is currently in pre-procurement and includes c. 480 homes across 7 sites.

All homes in the first and second bundles have been delivered. The procurement process has commenced for the third bundle and planning permission has been granted for all sites in the bundle. Bundles 4 and 5 are in pre-procurement with technical advisor appointments recently completed. Bundle 7 is in pre-procurement. Further details on these project bundles are available below.

• Bundle 1 includes 534 homes across 6 sites
• Bundle 2 includes 465 homes across 8 sites
• Bundle 3 includes c. 486 homes across 6 sites
• Bundle 4 includes c. 850 homes across 8 sites
• Bundle 5 includes c. 750 homes across 10 sites
• Bundle 7 includes c. 650 homes across 6 sites

Procurement / Latest News

Technical advisory frameworks to support the Social Housing PPP Programme have been established with more details available here.

Tenders have been received from the framework and it is anticipated that the firms selected for Bundle 6 of the programme will be appointed shortly.