Lone Worker Safety and Protection

Established in 2004, Procurement for Housing (PfH) is a national procurement consortium dedicated to the social housing sector and supported by the National Housing Federation (NHF), Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) and HouseMark. Collectively our Members manage more than 90% of UK’ social housing stock, with PfH helping them to achieve efficiency savings using a wide range of services including framework agreements, dynamic purchasing systems, spend analyses, strategy reviews, consolidated billing and comprehensive reporting. PfH is a contracting authority under section 2 of the Procurement Act 2023 and a centralised procurement authority under section 1(4) of that Act. Please refer to www.pfh.co.uk for additional information. PfH is administered by Inprova Limited and is headquartered in the North West of England with over 20 years of expertise and experience offering a complete procurement solutions package across outsourcing, technology and consultancy. By integrating procurement services and technology, Inprova operates as a delivery partner, supporting business performance improvement for the public sector. PfH intends to establish a framework for Lone Worker solutions. The Lone Worker Protection framework from PfH is an all-encompassing solution that will enable lone workers to feel safe and protected whilst on business. The awarded suppliers on this framework can offer a range of technologies and services. This is a multi-supplier framework, offering great saving opportunities, the primary object of this contract is to provide PfH Members with a flexible Lone Worker Protection framework agreement. The key features of the framework include but are not limited to: • National geographical coverage to supply Lone Worker Protection to a potential 900+ PfH Members (including those with multiple sites) in England, Wales & Northern Ireland. • A core list of Lone Worker Protection items including but not limited to Standard Dedicated Device, Dedicated Device with