Places for People has appointed groundworks contractors to a £246m framework covering 13 regional lots across England and Scotland. Coinford Central and RJ McLeod secured the broadest coverage, each winning places on six lots, according to the published award list.
M&J Evans Construction and Houlihan & Co each took four lots. The list of winning firms also includes MV Kelly, Erith, Tamdown, O’Halloran & O’Brien and Chasetown Civil Engineering, alongside a wider group of regional specialists.
Regional coverage
The framework is divided into packages across the North West, Yorkshire, the West Midlands, the East Midlands, the South East, the South West, London and Scotland. The appointments bring together contractors for different local requirements rather than a single national delivery arrangement.
Greater London is the largest regional package at around £38m. The South West package covering Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset is valued at £30m, while East Anglia and the northern Home Counties account for a further £29m.
The awarded work ranges from site clearance, bulk earthworks and foundations to drainage, utilities, roads, sewers and external works. The scope indicates that the framework is intended to cover early-stage site preparation as well as infrastructure needed to bring development plots forward.
Scottish scope
In Scotland, the packages extend beyond general groundworks to house foundations, completed in-situ concrete floors, plot drainage, retaining wall foundations and ducting for electric vehicle infrastructure. The Scottish lots are split between the Central Belt, the north and Aberdeen area, and a further northern package for which the document does not specify a detailed area.
The award list names several contractors across the regional lots, including A D Bly Construction, ATD Civils & Groundworks, Akela Construction, Chap Group, Ford Civil Engineering, Hilliard Civil Engineering (Nottingham), I&H Brown, LMH (Civil Engineering), Renelec Groundworks, Stave-Con, Tithegrove, TSL Contractors and WM Donald. Their inclusion reflects the framework’s regional structure and the varying scope of each lot.
The award notice lists multiple contractors for each regional lot, with some firms appearing in several areas. Erith Group and RJ McLeod feature across central and South East lots, while Coinford Central and Houlihan & Co appear in several southern and London packages.
The £246m value and the distribution of places show how Places for People is organising groundworks capacity across a large geographic area. The framework creates a roster of named contractors for the specified regions, with the largest allocations concentrated in London, the South West and eastern England.
The published details stop short of setting out project-level call-offs or construction timetables. They focus on the contractors and regional lots.