Social Housing PPP Bundle 6

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

Technical Advisers have been appointed from the Social Housing PPP Programme's framework. See Project Team below for further details.

An updated prior information (PIN) for the social housing PPP programme was published on eTenders on 9 May 2024, and is available here.

Project Background

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

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. Bundle 3 is currently in the preferred tender stage and planning permission has been granted for all sites in the bundle. Bundle 4 is in procurement. Bundles 5 and 7 are 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. 700 homes across 7 sites
Bundle 5 includes c. 1,200 homes across 10 sites
Bundle 7 includes c. 650 homes across 6 sites

Project Details

Cork Co. Council is acting as the lead local authority for the sixth bundle of the Social Housing PPP Programme. The location of the seven sites and indicative number of homes are detailed below.

Local Authority Cork Co. Council
Indicative no. of homes 70

Local Authority Cork Co. Council
Indicative no. of homes 50

Local Authority Cork Co. Council
Indicative no. of homes 50

Local Authority Cork Co. Council
Indicative no. of homes 50

Local Authority Kildare Co. Council
Indicative no. of homes 80

Local Authority Kildare Co. Council
Indicative no. of homes 80

Local Authority Wicklow Co. Council
Indicative no. of homes 100

Project Team

Role	Team Member
Approving Authority	Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage
Sponsoring Agency & Lead Local Authority	Cork. Co. Council
Local Authorities	Kildare Co. Council, Wicklow Co. Council
Procuring Authority / Project Manager	NDFA
Financial Advisor	NDFA
Legal Advisor	Philip Lee LLP
Architects	Van Dijk Architects Ltd. / Conroy Crowe Kelly Architects
Mechanical & Electrical Engineers	Matt O'Mahony and Associates
Civil & Structural Engineers	RPS Consulting Engineers Ltd.
Project Management Support	McAdam Design (Ireland) Ltd.
Planning Advisor	HRA Planning / MacCabe Durney Barnes
Quantity Surveyor	Currie & Brown Ltd.