Places for People has appointed groundworks contractors to a £246m framework divided into 13 regional lots across England and Scotland. Coinford Central and RJ McLeod secured the widest coverage, each taking places on six lots. M&J Evans Construction and Houlihan & Co each won four lots, while the appointed list also includes MV Kelly, Erith, Tamdown, O’Halloran & O’Brien and Chasetown Civil Engineering.
The framework covers site clearance, bulk earthworks and foundations through to drainage, utilities, roads, sewers and external works. In Scotland, the packages also include house foundations, completed in-situ concrete floors, plot drainage, retaining-wall foundations and ducting for electric-vehicle infrastructure.
Regional allocations
For the Yorkshire lot covering South and West Yorkshire, the named firms are JLC Groundworks, John Reilly Civil Engineering, M&J Evans Construction, MV Kelly, RJ McLeod and Westshield. The Central West lot for the West Midlands, Staffordshire and Warwickshire names ATD Civils & Groundworks, Erith Group, Hilliard Civil Engineering (Nottingham), M&J Evans Construction, Manvers Main Construction and RJ McLeod.
The Central East lot for Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire includes ATD Civils & Groundworks, Chasetown Civil Engineering, Erith Group, LMH (Civil Engineering), RJ McLeod and Stave-Con. The South East lot covering South Surrey, Kent, East Sussex and West Sussex has the same group of six contractors.
In the eastern South East lot—Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex—the named contractors are A D Bly Construction, Coinford Central, Houlihan & Co, Kingsheath Construction, O’Halloran & O’Brien and Tamdown Group. The northern South West lot for Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire lists A D Bly Construction, Coinford Central, Houlihan & Co, J L Knight Roadworks, SEH Ipswich and Tamdown Group.
For the southern South West lot covering Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset, the firms are Coinford Central, DR Groundworks, John Reilly Civil Engineering, M&J Evans Construction, Renelec Groundworks and Tithegrove. The western South West lot for Bristol, Devon and Somerset names Aeropark Developments, Coinford Central, Ford Civil Engineering, Hi-Acre Construction, Houlihan & Co and Renelec Groundworks.
Greater London’s lot names Coinford Central, Ford Civil Engineering, Fred Champion Groundworks, M&J Evans Construction, Renelec Groundworks and Tithegrove. In Scotland, the Central Belt lot includes A D Bly Construction, Coinford Central, Dockerill Groundworks, Houlihan & Co, Kingsheath Construction and O’Connell Contracting.
The North 1 lot, limited to the Aberdeen area, lists Advance Construction (Scotland), Akela Construction, Andrew Strain Construction, I&H Brown, Keystone Construction Scotland and Stewart Landscapes (Contracts). The North 2 lot, whose detailed area is not specified, names Chap Group, I&H Brown, JKR Contractors, Nicol of Skene, RJ McLeod and WM Donald.
The framework also includes a North West lot covering Lancashire, Manchester and Merseyside.
Package values
Greater London is the largest regional package at around £38m. It is followed by the Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset package at £30m, while East Anglia and the northern Home Counties account for a further £29m.