# Homes England - Soft Market Testing - Built Environment Professionals Recruitment Modelling and Management

> Pre-procurement notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Homes England](/buyers/homes-england/contract-awards)
- Tender value: £1
- Published: 5 August 2021
- Stage: pre_procurement
- Notice ID: b0925b26-01ec-43ac-8709-81f9ab46c6bb-458060
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-c69772af-0acd-4a34-81b1-71d73c9e7796

## Description

The purpose of this exercise is to test the market and understand if there are suppliers who can meet this challenge by designing a model, which after an initial injection of funding for set up costs, can become self-sustaining\. The model must meet the requirements, outputs and milestones set out below, which in summary includes: 1\. Identifying a region outside of London & South East 2\. Place a minimum of 22 build environment practitioners on placements of 12\+ months, 3\. Developing a way of identifying potential Local Government Authorities \(Authorities\) placements and recruiting a cohort to place in roles within the selected region 4\. Creating a learning and development programme to encourage the sharing of information across the candidates and Authorities in the region, 5\. Devising a programme to support candidates through their placement lifecycle, and 6\. Developing evaluation and success factors to monitor the project's performance and success\. Additional information: The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at; https://procontract\.due-north\.com/ by searching for reference no\. DN560749\. Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address\.

## Related contract awards

- [Homes England - Data Platform Improvement project \(G-Cloud14 Lot3\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-e77914e6-b010-408c-8034-09d6ac7f05d1): Homes England
- [Homes England - Property - Lawley West - Telford](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-837fda52-0f5a-49ce-bdac-ce08915a23b4): Homes England
- [Homes England - Multidisciplinary - Chalgrove \(off-site highways\) - South Oxfordshire](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-186a1351-665f-4b8e-852b-2fd9db648205): Homes England

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b0925b26-01ec-43ac-8709-81f9ab46c6bb-458060)