Five South West construction firms are among those to have secured multi-million pound building lots on a £4.5bn public sector procurement framework.
A total of 20 contractors have been awarded a place on the Southern Construction Framework (SCF), which supports public bodies with projects across the education, health, local authority, leisure sectors.
In the South West a dozen companies have been appointed to lots worth more than £4m, while 10 have won lots valued at between £1m to £5m.
SCF said the smaller lots in the region had been added to the fifth generation of the scheme in order to bring “local expertise” to clients and the potential to access new local supply chains.
Among the businesses with South West headquarters which have landed these lots are Dorset firms AJC Group and Mildren Construction, Swindon and Bristol-based Beard, Bath’s Halsall Construction, and Nevada Construction of Devon.
Reading-based Tilbury Douglas Construction and Knights Brown Construction in Hampshire have also won sub lots for the South West.
Kingsley Clarke, SCF’s operations lead in the South West, said: “Via our new sub £5m lots, we’ve also opened the door to SME contractors in the South West and we’re very much looking forward to working with them and their local supply chains on some innovative schemes in the region.”
David Cracklen, director of Poole-based AJC Group, said: “We are delighted to be awarded a place on SCF5, along with other leading regional and national contractors, such as Bowmer and Kirkland, GallifordTry and Mace. We are proud to be one of 12 newcomers to the framework and very much look forward to the opportunities ahead.
“We are well positioned to add our specialist experience in residential development and affordable housing to future projects procured via this public sector framework. We also welcome the prospect of collaborating with others approved by SCF to deliver excellent partnership projects.”
The UK arm of French industrial group Bouygues described its selection as a supplier for the South West for the lots worth more than £4m as “fantastic news”.
John Boughton, Bouygues UK’s managing director for the South West said: “We are keen to bring our construction expertise, innovation, and enthusiasm to help reform UK construction practices, and are committed to bringing sustainable benefits to the communities we work in. We really look forward to working with the SCF and new clients in the region.”
The winning contractors for the £4m+ South West lots are:
- BAM Construction,
- Bouygues UK,
- Galliford Try Construction,
- ISG Construction,
- John Graham Construction,
- Kier Construction,
- Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure,
- Tilbury Douglas,
- VINCI Construction,
- Wates Construction,
- Willmott Dixon Construction.
The new generation SCF Construct framework, which will launch in May, will complement the current SCF Residential and SCF Consult frameworks, which have delivered more than £8bn worth of combined construction schemes in the last 16 years since SCF was first established.
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