Working at Rand Associates Consultancy Services Ltd

Rand Associates Consultancy Services is a multi-disciplinary practice of surveyors, specialising in the maintenance of Social Housing across the UK.  All our assignments deal with housing maintenance and repairs. Our core areas of expertise are:

Procurement

We are the authors of the M3NHF Schedule of Rates with its associated Specialist SOR Modules which have been adopted by over 600 Housing Associations and Local Authorities as well as the NHS and Defence Infrastructure Organisation department of the Ministry of Defence.

We have developed our own portal, eTenders, for the secure management of procurement exercises. The site includes a secure registration process for contracts; distribution of tender documentation; messaging functionality for dealing with Q&A; online submission of tenders; email alerts and response management facilities to suppliers.

Surveys

We have been providing surveying services to UK social landlords since the 1980’s and are proud to have the longest record of undertaking stock condition and associated surveys in the sector.

Around this core service we also carry out many other type of survey including Validations; Energy Performance Certificates; surveys to commercial and corporate buildings; Fire Risk Assessments; Asbestos; and other compliance surveys.

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 and energy surveys and are developing it further to allow us to undertaken Fire Risk Assessments and other compliance surveys.

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. Some of these include:
• Contract auditing
• Value for money reviews
• Benchmarking
• Asset management strategies
• Business and Investment plans
• Stock appraisals
• Sustainability assessments

Software

With our coilleagues at M3 Housing (www.m3h.co.uk) we produce software for use within the social housing sector, including:

• M3Vision, a web based asset management and reporting database
• M3Central, for accurate repair diagnosis and reporting
• M3Pamwin, for development appraisals