The Irish National Treasury Management Agency (NDFA) for and on behalf of the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Dublin City Council, has issued a Prior Information Notice (PIN) with the intention to procure, by Public Private Partnership (PPP), the design, build, finance, operation and maintenance of a number of social housing developments in Ireland.

The Social Housing PPP, Bundle 1, is expected to consist of 6 social housing developments located in Dublin, Kildare, Louth and Wicklow.

The 2^nd phase of the Government’s current PPP programme, announced by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin T.D in Budget 2015, envisages a programme to invest €300 million (US$321.6 million) in social housing and is expected to comprise:

• development of up to 1,500 housing units as a number of ‘bundles’ of sites;
• provision of services to the developments over a 25 year period following construction that will include the maintenance and upkeep of the housing; and

The programme is being delivered in three bundles with a capital value of approximately €100 million (US$107.2 million) each. Each bundle is being developed over a number of sites, spread across different local authorities. Each individual site is to provide between 50 and 100 social housing units.

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