Contracts

Newcastle City Council is looking for a new contractor for a leisure centre that was due to be built by Willmott Dixon. In February, Willmott Dixon announced it had been appointed to develop the “state-of-the-art” Outer West Leisure Centre in West Denton, then costed at £26m. Willmott Dixon has carried…

McAleer & Rushe has won a £60m contract to transform a former bus depot in east London into apartments. Construction on the London Road development in Barking is due to start in November and is targeted for completion in June 2026. It will be jointly-funded by property investment firm Yara…

Robertson and Equans have been named alongside more than a dozen SMEs on a £300m construction framework for Lancashire County Council. The four-year framework, which opened for tenders in December, is for construction works procured on a partnering basis and is also open for use by the University of Central…

ISG has been picked for a £155m programme to deliver 780 prison places across three sites. The contractor will build Category D houseblocks with 60 single-occupancy rooms, as well as ancillary rooms, for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) via a FAC-1 Alliance contract. ISG was selected via the Crown Commercial…

Fit-out specialist Portview has taken over working on Fulham Football Club’s Craven Cottage from collapsed contractor Buckingham Group. Portview was already contracted to complete the interior fit-out of the new Riverside Stand upon completion of the base by Buckingham Group. The fit-out was left unfinished when Buckingham went into administration…

LHC Procurement Group wants specialist contractors to help shape a new energy-efficient retrofit and decarbonisation framework for public sector buildings and social housing. The non-profit public sector construction framework provider will open a market-engagement and feedback process on 20 September on initial proposals for its Decarbonisation and Retrofit (N9) framework.…

Mace has been appointed as construction manager on remediation works at Birmingham City Football Club’s stadium, taking over from Buckingham Group. The stadium’s Tilton and Kop stands have been partially shut since 2020 due to asbestos damage, and their remediation was left with an uncertain future after Buckingham collapsed into…

The procurement arm of social housing consortium Efficiency North has extended the deadline for bids on two frameworks with a combined value of almost £4bn. EN:Procure revealed earlier today (11 September) that interested parties have until 29 September to submit bids on a £3.2bn installation and repairs framework covering Yorkshire,…

Kier, Tilbury Douglas and Wates are among 87 contractors to have been appointed to an £8bn public sector framework. The Procure Partnerships Framework focused on construction work when it launched four years ago, but has now been expanded to include decarbonisation and retrofit, demolition and site preparation, and infrastructure. Designed…

Laing O’Rourke has been appointed as the preferred construction partner on a new hospital in Lanarkshire. The firm will support the delivery of the Monklands Replacement Project (MRP), which will be “Scotland’s first fully digital and net-zero carbon hospital”, according to the client, NHS Lanarkshire. It is estimated that MRP…