Places for People has named the groundworks contractors for a £246m framework divided 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. The wider line-up includes MV Kelly, Erith, Tamdown, O’Halloran & O’Brien and Chasetown Civil Engineering, together with a group of regional specialists named across the individual lot lists.
The framework covers site clearance, bulk earthworks and foundations, as well as drainage, utilities, roads, sewers and external works. Scottish packages extend from house foundations to completed in-situ concrete floors, plot drainage, retaining wall foundations and ducting for electric vehicle infrastructure.
Largest regional packages
Greater London is the biggest regional package at around £38m. The Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset lot follows at £30m, while East Anglia and the northern Home Counties account for a further £29m.
Lot allocations show a mix of contractors across regions. In London, the named firms are Coinford Central, Ford Civil Engineering, Fred Champion Groundworks, M&J Evans Construction, Renelec Groundworks and Tithegrove. The South West—South lot for Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset lists Coinford Central, DR Groundworks, John Reilly Civil Engineering, M&J Evans Construction, Renelec Groundworks and Tithegrove.
In the South East—East lot covering Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex, the firms named are A D Bly Construction, Coinford Central, Houlihan & Co, Kingsheath Construction, O’Halloran & O’Brien and Tamdown Group. The South West—North lot for Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire includes A D Bly Construction, Coinford Central, Houlihan & Co, J L Knight Roadworks, SEH Ipswich and Tamdown Group.
The South West—West lot for Bristol, Devon and Somerset names Aeropark Developments, Coinford Central, Ford Civil Engineering, Hi-Acre Construction, Houlihan & Co and Renelec Groundworks. The Central West lot for the West Midlands, Staffordshire and Warwickshire includes ATD Civils & Groundworks, Erith Group, Hilliard Civil Engineering (Nottingham), M&J Evans Construction, Manvers Main Construction and RJ McLeod.
Other lot lists include ATD Civils & Groundworks, Chasetown Civil Engineering, Erith Group, LMH (Civil Engineering), RJ McLeod and Stave-Con on both the Central East lot and the South East—South lot. The Yorkshire lot for South and West Yorkshire names JLC Groundworks, John Reilly Civil Engineering, M&J Evans Construction, MV Kelly, RJ McLeod and Westshield.
In Scotland, the Central Belt lot names A D Bly Construction, Coinford Central, Dockerill Groundworks, Houlihan & Co, Kingsheath Construction and O’Connell Contracting. The Scotland—North 1 lot, covering the Aberdeen area only, includes Advance Construction (Scotland), Akela Construction, Andrew Strain Construction, I&H Brown, Keystone Construction Scotland and Stewart Landscapes (Contracts). The Scotland—North 2 lot, for which the detailed area is not specified, lists Chap Group, I&H Brown, JKR Contractors, Nicol of Skene, RJ McLeod and WM Donald.
The lot allocations bring together national and regional groundworks contractors under one framework, with the largest stated regional values in London, southern England and eastern England.