SEC breaks
100,000 stock threshold
The South East Consortium (SEC)
has recently broken the 100,000 stock threshold with the recent
addition of four Kent local authorities. The SEC membership now
represents a combined stock holding of over 109,000
properties.
Frank Barber, SEC Chair, was delighted
to make the recent announcement. He reiterated the principle
benefits of membership to a successful procurement consortia,
namely the added value gained through increased volumes as well as
shared good practice and benchmarking opportunities.
He said "The SEC is gaining strength
through this increased membership and is looking forward to further
developing the services and other opportunities available to
Members in the future."
The SEC is a procurement Consortium
representing 16 social housing landlords across the South East of
England. Since its inception in 2005 the SEC has been growing
steadily in membership, expanding its work to include staff
development, process and value engineering of existing
contracts and performance benchmarking. However the primary focus
of the SEC remains procurement. With growing volumes of stock,
Members of the SEC are now benefiting from increased efficiency
savings.
The Consortium recognises its
responsibility to address national issues of concern in social
housing such as sustainability and worklessness and is in the
process of developing a programme of workshops to drive programmes
forward.
Meanwhile SEC's training and
development programme continues to pick up speed with industry
standard courses such as Building Regulations and Asbestos
Awareness a regular fixture on the training calendar.
A full list of procurement packages,
training courses and other benefits of SEC can be found at http://www.southeastconsortium.co.uk/