Learn More About EPS

Registration Form

Please complete, sign and return this form . We will then provide you with access to the secure area of the website and details on obtaining a formal Access Agreement, which, once in place, will allow you to use the EPS Framework throughout the term of the framework.

Name
Organisation
The EPS Framework is for use by public sector organisations in the North West of England. Please confirm that you are a public sector organisation in the North West of England. / Yes / No
Position
Dept/Team
Address
Post Code
Email address
Phone Number
Please describe briefly why you are interested in potentially using the EPS Framework.
Website address

Please indicate if you do not wish to be added to the NWCH database of receive emails from us or the Centre for Construction Innovation.

The NWCH reserves the right not to provide access to the Secure Area and data contained within.

The Terms and Conditions for usage of the EPS Framework are stated below please sign & return this document with your application.

Terms and Conditions. Rights of Access

Prior to appointing a consultant/s from this framework the client will be required to complete a full Access Agreement. The Access Agreement is to be completed only once and applies to all commissions let through the EPS Framework. Details of the agreement are clearly provided on the website, The terms and conditions contained herein shall serve as an interim measure until the Access Agreement is executed.

The Parties

The Council of the City of Manchester trading as the North West Construction Hub. The Client is a 3rd party organisation referred to and set out in the OJEU Notice Ref: 2010/S188-287528 dated 28th September 2010 as amended by OJEU Notices Ref’s 2010/S201-305644 (15th October 2010) and 2010/S209-318273 (27th October 2010) Engineering and Professional Services and who may wish to draw down services under the Framework Agreement.

The Framework

The NWCH entered into a Framework Agreement for the provision of Engineering and Professional Services (“the Framework Agreement”). The Consultants appointed under that framework are listed in the OJEU Contract Award Notice dated 4th August 2012 ref 2012/S 149-248605.

Consultant Appointment

Any drawdown of services under the Framework Agreement shall be subject to the Client entering into an NWCH form of Contract (as defined the in the Framework Agreement and as provided to the Client by the NWCH) with the Framework Partner for that particular service stream and Lot and on an individual contract and project basis.

Confidentiality

The Client shall not during the period of the Framework or any Contract or at any time thereafter make use for its own purposes or disclose to any person (except as may be required by law or to its professional advisers for the purposes of this Contract or for the proper performance of the Services) any contract documents or any confidential, secret or proprietary information therein or in any material provided by the NWCH or the Framework Partner to the Client pursuant to the Framework Agreement and/ or any Contract or prepared by the Framework Partner pursuant to the Contract all of which information (including any information disclosed regarding the tender and tender prices) shall be deemed to be and to remain confidential, secret and proprietary.