Members
Membership to NHMF Frameworx is open to contracting authorities who are licence holders of the following M3NHF Schedule of Rates products:
- Responsive Maintenance and Void Property Works
- Repairs Ordering Schedule (ROS)
- Planned Maintenance and Property Reinvestment
Register of Members
Membership of NHMF is restricted to contracting authorities. Article 25.2 of its Articles of Association state that no organisation or person may be admitted as a Member of NHMF unless they are a contracting authority under PCR 2015. This ensures that its status as “an association of contracting authorities” continues when new Members are admitted.
The Register of Members lists the contracting authorities who are eligible to use the NHMF Frameworx as of the date of the publication of the relevant FTS Notice.
Associates
The term “Associate” is used to denote organisations that are not Members of NHMF (either because they are not contracting authorities, and therefore ineligible to become Members, or because they are licence holders of other M3NHF Schedule of Rates module products including Facility Management who do not qualify by not being a licence – holder of one or more of the three products indicated above in order to be a ‘Member’
In order to use one of the Frameworx frameworks an Associate must first sign an Authorising Agreement.
General
For subsequent frameworks a list of categories of contracting authority that can use those frameworks will be included in the FTS notices. This enables contracting authorities that become Members or “Associates” after the date of these FTS notices to use these frameworks.
It is not necessary for an organisation to be a contracting authority to use Frameworx. Procurements for organisations that are not contracting authorities is not regulated by PCR 2015. However, as set out above, before being permitted to use the frameworks, these organisations must first sign an Authorising Agreement and therefore become an “Associate”.