Places for People has appointed groundworks contractors to a £246m framework divided into 13 regional lots across England and Scotland, with Coinford Central and RJ McLeod securing the widest coverage at six lots each.
M&J Evans Construction and Houlihan & Co each took four lots. Other named winners include MV Kelly, Erith, Tamdown, O'Halloran & O'Brien and Chasetown Civil Engineering, alongside regional specialists appointed to individual areas.
Framework scope
Work under the framework ranges from site clearance, bulk earthworks and foundations to drainage, utilities, roads, sewers and external works. The Scottish packages go further, covering house foundations through to completed in-situ concrete floors, plot drainage, retaining wall foundations and ducting for electric vehicle infrastructure.
Regional coverage
The 13 lots and the areas they cover are:
- 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 (Surrey, Kent, East and West Sussex)
- South East (Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex)
- South West (Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire)
- South West (Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset)
- South West (Bristol, Devon and Somerset)
- London (Greater London)
- Scotland (Central Belt)
- Scotland (Aberdeen area only)
- Scotland (area not specified)
Package values
Greater London is the biggest regional package at around £38m, followed by the Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset lot at £30m. East Anglia and the northern Home Counties account for a further £29m.
Where the places fall
The published lot lists each carry six contractors, mixing multi-region groundworks businesses with local civil engineering firms. Coinford Central's six places sit in the South East, South West and London lots, while RJ McLeod's span the North West, Yorkshire, Central West and Central East lots plus two of the three Scottish lots. M&J Evans Construction's four places are in the North West, Yorkshire and two South West lots, and Houlihan & Co's four cover both South East lots, the South West and London.
Individual lot lists combine multi-region contractors with local specialists. The North West lot names JLC Groundworks, John Reilly Civil Engineering, M&J Evans Construction, MV Kelly, RJ McLeod and Westshield; the Yorkshire lot names ATD Civils & Groundworks, Erith Group, Hilliard Civil Engineering (Nottingham), M&J Evans Construction, Manvers Main Construction and RJ McLeod; and the London lot names A D Bly Construction, Coinford Central, Dockerill Groundworks, Houlihan & Co, Kingsheath Construction and O'Connell Contracting.
Scottish work is split across three lots. The Central Belt lot names Advance Construction (Scotland), Akela Construction, Andrew Strain Construction, I&H Brown, Keystone Construction Scotland and Stewart Landscapes (Contracts); the Aberdeen-area lot names Chap Group, I&H Brown, JKR Contractors, Nicol of Skene, RJ McLeod and WM Donald; and the third Scottish lot names Akela Construction, Chap Group, I&H Brown, RJ McLeod, TSL Contractors and WM Donald.