LHC Frameworks & DPS – Forthcoming Opportunities 2025

LHC’s compliant frameworks are free-to-use and can be used by local authorities, social landlords and other public sector bodies to procure works, products and services for the construction, refurbishment and maintenance of social housing and public buildings.
Created: 5 February 2025
Last Reviewed: 11 February 2026
Contents
Introduction
What is a framework?
What is a DPS?
What are the current LHC opportunities?
How should you engage with these opportunities?
Are there examples of work that have previously been put through these procurement routes?

Introduction

LHC’s compliant frameworks are free-to-use and can be used by local authorities, social landlords and other public sector bodies to procure works, products and services for the construction, refurbishment and maintenance of social housing and public buildings. LHC Frameworks cover the Midlands, London and the South East.

In this article the NFB will include details of forthcoming opportunities for contractors in these frameworks and the DPSs.

What is a framework?

Frameworks are umbrella agreements that set out the specification, quantity, quality, price and other requirements of building contracts. Suppliers compete through open competition to be appointed to a framework. Publicly funded bodies then access the suppliers that have successfully met the framework criteria by “calling off” individual contracts.

What is a DPS?

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