Places for People has appointed groundworks contractors to a £246m framework spanning England and Scotland, with Coinford Central and RJ McLeod taking places on the widest spread of regional lots.
The deal is split into 13 regional lots. Coinford Central and RJ McLeod each secured spots on six of the 13, the broadest coverage of any contractor named in the award.
M&J Evans Construction and Houlihan & Co each picked up four lots. The published lot lists name six contractors apiece, which means most firms on the framework hold places in more than one part of the country.
Work covered by the lots
English packages run from site clearance, bulk earthworks and foundations through to drainage, utilities, roads, sewers and external works.
Scottish packages carry wider scope: house foundations through to completed in-situ concrete floors, plot drainage, retaining wall foundations and ducting for electric vehicle infrastructure.
Where the lots sit
Lot groupings named in the published award:
- North West — Lancashire, Manchester and Merseyside.
- Yorkshire — South and West Yorkshire.
- Central West — West Midlands, Staffordshire and Warwickshire.
- Central East — Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire.
- South East South — Surrey, Kent, East and West Sussex.
- South East East — Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex.
- South West North — Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire.
- South West South — Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset.
- South West West — Bristol, Devon and Somerset.
- London — Greater London.
- Scotland — Central Belt, North 1 (Aberdeen area only) and North 2, for which no detailed area is specified.
Greater London is the biggest regional package at around £38m, followed by Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset at £30m. East Anglia and the northern Home Counties account for a further £29m.
Other contractors named in the lot lists include ATD Civils & Groundworks, A D Bly Construction, Hilliard Civil Engineering (Nottingham), LMH (Civil Engineering), Stave-Con, Ford Civil Engineering, DR Groundworks, Renelec Groundworks, Tithegrove, Fred Champion Groundworks, Aeropark Developments, Hi-Acre Construction, Kingsheath Construction, J L Knight Roadworks, SEH Ipswich, Dockerill Groundworks, O'Connell Contracting, JLC Groundworks, John Reilly Civil Engineering, Westshield and Manvers Main Construction. The Scottish lots also name Advance Construction (Scotland), Akela Construction, Andrew Strain Construction, I&H Brown, Keystone Construction Scotland, Stewart Landscapes (Contracts), Chap Group, JKR Contractors, Nicol of Skene and WM Donald.
The award sets out the contractor pool Places for People will draw on for groundworks across its English and Scottish regions; the published lists do not give a timetable for packages under the individual lots.