Willmott Dixon will use its re-appointment as sole contractor on Scape's major works framework to further drive down the cost of procurement and construction for public sector organisations.
It will also create jobs and boost opportunities for local companies over the next four years.
Willmott Dixon estimates that under the previous Scape framework, where it was the incumbent contractor, local authorities saved a minimum of 14p in every £1 they spent on projects procured through Scape. Willmott Dixon aims to increase that saving to 20p in every £1, while ensuring 60 per cent of project budgets are spent on companies within a 20-mile radius of each Scape site, and raising employment and skills targets by 1,400 per cent.
Scape specialises in providing a range of national and regional procurement frameworks enabling the UK public sector to procure construction services quicker and more efficiently, without having to go through lengthy and costly OJEU processes each time.
Scape's frameworks are worth £3bn and over the last decade Scape has delivered over 1,200 projects on time and in budget for 250 public sector clients.
Scape's new major works framework, which Willmott Dixon won after a seven-month re-procurement process, is expected to generate £1.25bn of construction work over the next four years. It comes as public sector budget cuts and reduced spending on capital projects put the spotlight on contractors generating even more value and efficiency in their construction output.
The benefits to clients of using Scape, including the reduced procurement time it brings, was underlined by Willmott Dixon delivering all 157 projects under the previous framework on time and in budget.
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