Rand Associates Consultancy Services Limited

Rand has a combined wealth of experience gained from working with a large number of local authorities & housing associations.
We have 2 primary offices. Our Head office is in Reigate Surrey & our Northern office is on the Wirral. Our core areas of expertise are:
A. Procurement
We are authors of the M3NHF Schedule of Rates with its associated Specialist SOR Modules which have been adopted by over 600 Housing Associations & Local Authorities.
We have unrivalled experience of procuring contracts in the social housing sector, whether this be with the NHMF Form of Contract which we developed, or other forms such as TPC and NEC.
We have developed our own portal, eTenders, for the secure management of procurement exercises.
B. Surveys
We have been providing surveying services to UK social landlords since the 1980’s & are proud to have the longest record of undertaking stock condition & associated surveys in the sector.
Around this core service we also carry out many other type of survey including Validations; EPCs; surveys to commercial & corporate buildings. Retrofit services.
We developed our iPad app eSurveys in response to efforts to streamline our own surveying activities. We now use the tool for all our stock condition & energy surveys & are developing it further to allow us to undertake other types of surveys.
C. Consultancy
We provide services across a wide a range of topics, with a fundamental goal of enabling clients to efficiently maintain their stock to a high standard. These include:
• Contract auditing
• Value for money reviews
• Benchmarking
• Asset management strategies
• Programming of works
• Business & Investment plans
• Stock appraisals
• Sustainability assessments & strategies
Along with our Partners at M3 Housing we offer software solutions for Asset Management, Development & Repairs Diagnostics – M3Vision, M3Pamwin, M3Locator Plus, M3Central & the M3NHF Schedule of Rates.

Frameworks

• Building and Stock Condition Framework
• Decarbonisation and Retrofit Advisors Framework