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/