Prefabricated houses/units for the Danish Emergency Management Agency’s (DEMA)

DEMA needs to be able to erect different configurations and combinations of prefabricated houses/units at short notice, typically in disaster-affected countries with relatively poor or wiped-out infrastructure.

The anticipated response time when deploying DEMA’s capacities is between 48 hours and 7 weeks. During the initial phase, tent-based solutions will typically be put up; these will continuously be replaced with prefabricated units if the assignment is foreseeably set to last for a lengthy period. A lengthy period is defined as an assignment lasting no less than six months.

DEMA has identified a need for prefabricated houses/units for several types of missions:

1. A base camp concept which must be able to accommodate 60 people, with office, meeting/teaching facilities, bathroom/toilet, laundrette, kitchen and canteen (approx. 72 units of varying type and size)

2. Reception centers (40 workplaces) for refugee camps, consisting of office, meeting/teaching facilities, and bathrooms/toilet facilities (approx. 40 units of varying type and size)

3. Support functions for the Emergency Management Agency’s Mobile Hospital concept, including stores for medicine, office, meeting/teaching facilities, as well as bathroom/toilet, laundrette, kitchen and canteen (approx. 20 units of varying type and size)

4. Other types of missions including education and training (approx. 5 – 20 units of varying type and size)

In order to accommodate a growing requirement from the UN, International Humanitarian Partnership (IHP) and other parties requesting prefabricated houses/units, DEMA wishes to conclude a framework agreement that enables DEMA to be supplied with any of the above requested houses/units-scenarios necessary for a specific mission within 45 days ex works at DEMA’s logistics center in Herning.