Contracts

Six contractors appointed to carry out £100m of work on universities in the North East have an extra period of opportunity after their four-year deal was extended. The North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium has published an official notice of modification to its Minor Works Lot 1A Framework Agreement. Rather than…

Speller Metcalfe is to deliver major upgrades to two public buildings in Wolverhampton. The contractor, which has offices in the West Midlands city, was named as preferred bidder for works on its Central Library and adult education facilities. The deal forms part of a £61m investment in Wolverhampton’s Learning Quarter…

Northumbrian Water has added 33 firms including Esh Construction, Galliford Try and Keltbray to its growing army of suppliers to deliver £3.6bn of projects in the second half of this decade. The utility giant appointed the contractors (see box below for full list) across an 11-lot framework that will be…

Rolls-Royce has appointed Balfour Beatty as construction partner to double the size of an industrial complex used for key components of nuclear attack submarines. The aerospace and defence manufacturer selected the contractor to deliver expansion of its Raynesway site in Derby in line with increased demand from the Ministry of…

Cumbrian firm Stobbarts has won a £40m infrastructure deal at Sellafield nuclear power station. The Workington firm will support Sir Robert McAlpine on groundworks and concrete jobs at the sprawling Cumbrian plant. The contractor was appointed by Sellafield’s Programme and Project Partners (PPP), a coalition of Kellogg Brown and Root,…

National Grid has appointed five contractors including Laing O’Rourke and Morgan Sindall to deliver £9bn of work on its major upgrade of the electricity network. Morrison Energy Services, Murphy and a joint venture of Vinci subsidiaries Taylor Woodrow and Omexom complete the construction team for the Great Grid Partnership. They…

A group of local authorities is looking for contractors for £800m of roads-related construction work. Central Bedfordshire Council published a formal procurement notice for the Eastern Highways Alliance Framework 4. The deal will cover structural, surfacing, road and capital projects across 11 local authority areas. Work going through the framework…

Willmott Dixon’s repairs and maintenance business Fortem has extended its partnership with Birmingham City Council by two years. The two-year extension will be worth £170m and takes the partnership length to 18 years in total. Fortem will continue to deliver repairs, maintenance and gas services to homes in the city.…

Higgins has won a £75m contract to deliver 189 Passive House-certified homes for housing association Peabody. The job, won by the firm’s Higgins Partnerships arm, in Deptford, south-east London, is said to be one of the largest Passive House-certified developments planned in the UK. It is Peabody’s first foray into…

A Bath-based housing association is looking for contractors to build and develop new homes over the next four years. Curo, one of the South West’s biggest landlords, is looking to build 2,000 homes by 2027. Contractors have until midday on 28 May to submit tenders for one of three framework…