Places for People has selected groundworks contractors for a £246m framework split into 13 regional lots across England and Scotland.
Coinford Central and RJ McLeod secured the widest spread of places, each winning positions on six of the 13 lots. M&J Evans Construction and Houlihan & Co each picked up four lots. Other winners include 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 extend to house foundations, completed in-situ concrete floors, plot drainage, retaining wall foundations and ducting for electric vehicle infrastructure.
The regional structure separates work by geography. Greater London is the largest regional package at around £38m, followed by Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset at £30m. East Anglia and the northern Home Counties account for a further £29m.
Several firms appear across multiple lots. In the North West lot covering Lancashire, Manchester and Merseyside, the selected contractors are JLC Groundworks, John Reilly Civil Engineering, M&J Evans Construction, MV Kelly, RJ McLeod and Westshield. The Yorkshire lot for South and West Yorkshire names ATD Civils & Groundworks, Erith Group, Hilliard Civil Engineering (Nottingham), M&J Evans Construction, Manvers Main Construction and RJ McLeod.
For the Central West lot covering the West Midlands, Staffordshire and Warwickshire, the winners are ATD Civils & Groundworks, Chasetown Civil Engineering, Erith Group, LMH (Civil Engineering), RJ McLeod and Stave-Con. The Central East lot for Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire includes ATD Civils & Groundworks, Chasetown Civil Engineering, Hilliard Civil Engineering (Nottingham), LMH (Civil Engineering), RJ McLeod and Stave-Con.
In the South East, the southern lot for Surrey, Kent, East Sussex and West Sussex includes A D Bly Construction, Coinford Central, Houlihan & Co, Kingsheath Construction, O'Halloran & O'Brien and Tamdown Group. The eastern South East lot for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex includes A D Bly Construction, Coinford Central, Houlihan & Co, J L Knight Roadworks, SEH Ipswich and Tamdown Group.
The South West is divided into three lots. The northern lot for Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire includes Coinford Central, DR Groundworks, John Reilly Civil Engineering, M&J Evans Construction, Renelec Groundworks and Tithegrove. The southern lot for Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset includes Aeropark Developments, Coinford Central, Ford Civil Engineering, Hi-Acre Construction, Houlihan & Co and Renelec Groundworks. The western lot for Bristol, Devon and Somerset includes Coinford Central, Ford Civil Engineering, Fred Champion Groundworks, M&J Evans Construction, Renelec Groundworks and Tithegrove.
London's lot names A D Bly Construction, Coinford Central, Dockerill Groundworks, Houlihan & Co, Kingsheath Construction and O'Connell Contracting. In Scotland, the Central Belt lot includes Advance Construction (Scotland), Akela Construction, Andrew Strain Construction, I&H Brown, Keystone Construction Scotland and Stewart Landscapes (Contracts).
The Scotland North 1 lot, limited to the Aberdeen area, names Chap Group, I&H Brown, JKR Contractors, Nicol of Skene, RJ McLeod and WM Donald. The Scotland North 2 lot, for which the list does not specify a detailed area, includes Akela Construction, Chap Group, I&H Brown, RJ McLeod, TSL Contractors and WM Donald.