Consultants land spots on £500m professional services framework

Arcadis, Arup, Currie & Brown and Turner & Townsend are among a large group of consultants to have landed a place on a £500m, four-year-long professional services framework.

The framework, run by Procure Partnerships, had applications
from more than 400 individual practices.

Running alongside Procure Partnerships’ national contractor
frameworks, the professional services framework has appointed suppliers to the
following disciplines:

• Architectural Design
• Landscape Architectural Design
• Project Management
• Structural Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Quantity Surveying
• MEP Design
• Building Surveying
• Principle Designer
• Fire Engineering
• Sustainability and Environmental

Arcadis, Hollis, Currie & Brown, Turner & Townsend,
Gardiner & Theobald and Gleeds are among 14 firms to have taken spots on
the framework in the project management discipline.

Arup, Curtins and Cundall are among 12 companies to have won
places in the structural engineering discipline. And Bureau Veritas, Hoare Lea
and OFR Fire Risk Consultants have all been appointed to the fire engineering
discipline.

For details of the other companies involved, click here.

Robbie Blackhurst, Procure Partnerships framework director said: “This
agreement has been two years in the making and it now allows the Procure
Partnerships Framework to offer a one stop shop of both professional services
and contractor appointments to our public sector clients. The framework is
divided into sub-regional lots supporting the appointment of both local and
national practices, offering both Direct Award and Further Competition project
call offs.

“We were extremely impressed with the quality of tenders
received and delighted with the calibre of suppliers that we now have locked
into our 4 year agreement. The breadth of public sector delivery experience
across our supplier partners is impressive and we are excited to work with and
support them.

“It was important to us that our supplier partners have
demonstrable experience of delivering across all public sub sectors. This
attracted 20% of the total evaluation which has meant that we have suppliers
who have outstanding experience of delivering Education, Healthcare, Leisure,
and Blue Light projects within their specific allotted geographies.”