The council intends to launch a bespoke house refurbishment and housebuilding procurement frameworks for Foundations.

Foundations – which is earmarked as a £500m programme – has been tasked with creating bespoke properties for the homeless, foster carers, large families, the elderly and people with disabilities and to improve the availability of good quality, affordable homes in the city.

The new frameworks will be designed specifically to enable Liverpool- and Merseyside-based businesses to pitch for work as part of the derelict refurbishment and new-build programmes.

The council has already taken its first step to launch the new frameworks by publishing a soft market testing exercise with a questionnaire for contractors.

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“Foundations has the potential to be absolutely transformational in so many ways, such as by creating the right housing mix that the city needs and generating new council tax income, which we can reinvest in services,” said Joe Anderson, mayor of Liverpool.

“But crucially, it is also vital that as part of the construction programme that we give as many local businesses as possible the chance to bid for work from Foundations.”

The sector has until 14^th September to reply, after which feedback will be collated and then used to fine tune the framework before its official launch at the end of the month.

Frank Hont, chair of Foundations, said that the sheer scale of work that it would be doing over the next few years offered a tremendous opportunity to local firms.

“The procurement framework aims to recycle as much of the spending as possible locally through the city region economy into the coffers of local businesses and ultimately the pockets of local workers, benefiting households across the city region.

“It is an example of how the work that Foundations will be doing will have far reaching benefits that stretches far beyond just building new homes.”