Winning bidders picked from 16 firms shortlisted last summer
Ten firms have landed places on a huge £37bn hospital building framework with the winners due to be formally announced next week, Building can reveal.
Firms have been told in the last few days who has made it onto the framework but the names are not being made public until a ‘standstill’ period has elapsed.
But Building understands all 16 firms on an initial shortlist have now been told whether they have made it or not with those securing spots including Bovis, Morgan Sindall and Laing O’Rourke.
Others succesful firms include Kier, John Graham and IHP, the healthcare joint venture between Vinci and Sir Robert McAlpine, and Skanska. The remaining firms to have made it onto the framework are Spanish contractors Dragados and Sacyr along with Willmott Dixon.
But half a dozen firms have been told the news they have not made the cut including McLaren, Multiplex and Sisk.
One firm who missed out said: “It’s a bit disappointing. We thought we’d put together a strong case but there you go. I think we’re on a subs bench where we get invited along to hear them talk about the jobs they’ll be doing. We’ll see.”
The other firms thought to have missed out are Bam, Ferrovial and Bouygues.
The Department for Health has been been contacted for comment.
The framework will be used by NHS trusts to appoint so-called Alliance Partners responsible for the design, construction and handover of individual hospital projects.
Last January, the government published a new timetable to deliver the NHP with some projects now pushed back beyond 2037.
At the time, health secretary Wes Streeting described the new timetable as “honest, realistic [and] deliverable” in contrast to Boris Johnson’s original pledge to build 40 hospitals by 2030 which Streeting said was built on the “shaky foundation of false hope”.
Under the plan, which will see 46 hospitals built or refurbished, projects will be delivered and funded in five-year “waves”, with £15bn allocated for each wave.
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