Government publishes details of £118 bn pipeline of construction projects ⁰

The UK Government, in conjunction with construction industry data specialist Barbour ABI, has published a full detailed list of around £118 billion of publicly funded building projects scheduled for the next five years. You can find the pipeline as a spreadsheet here, with the data broken down by sector and including some basic data for each project. The Government has also introduced a dedicated website with details of the projects with updates to the raw data available via both the central government website and at data.gov.uk. The government construction pipeline is now updated twice a year which the Government claims will ‘extend its reach beyond the major construction spending departments and improve the integrity of the data’  and demonstrate its commitment ‘to continuous engagement with industry and government clients on current use and future improvements’.

The government has also announced details of a new centralised facilities management services framework contract that is now live and expected to save some £200 million. The new framework means that, rather than each department procuring its own FM services, it will now draw work from a pool of 19 contractors for a range of hard and soft FM services.  The framework has been developed by the Government Property Unit and Crown Commercial Service, in collaboration with central government departments.

Anticipated benefits include up to 15 percent savings through better buying, a common set of service level requirements, terms and conditions and pricing and improved management information enabling better cost benchmarking and performance management across the whole of the public sector.

The contractors on the panel for each lot are:

Total Facilities Management

Amey Community
Bouygues E&S FM UK
Carillion Services
Emcor
Interserve (Facilities Management)
ISS Facilities Services
Sigma Support Services
Skanska Rashleigh Weatherfoil
Sodexo Holdings
Vinci Construction UK

Hard Facilities Management

Bilfinger Europa Facilities Management Services
Carillion Services
Cofely Workplace
Emcor
Galliford Try Building
Interserve (Facilities Management)
Kier Facilities Services
Skanska Rashleigh Weatherfoil
Sodexo Holdings
Vinci Construction UK

Soft Facilities Management

Amey Community
Bouygues E&S FM UK
Carillion Services
Compass Contract Services operating as ESS
Emcor
Mitie Facilities Services
Noonan Services Group
OCS
Servest Group
Sodexo Holdings

Pic: award winning Wiltshire CC offices by Stride Treglown.