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United Kingdom : HUMBERSIDE school goes it alone to roll out national framework of local contractors

Publish Date : 07-Jul-2015

A Humberside school has gone it alone to introduce a national framework of local contractors eligible to deliver minor works worth Ł50,000 to Ł5m. It comes as officials at the Government’s Education Funding Agency propose a shake-up in procurement to get on-board more local contractors as main contractors turn away more and more from small school jobs.

The EFA has been under fire for setting up a Ł4bn regional framework of firms that was limited largely to the main national players in spite of being targeted at much smaller upgrade works.
However, this has backfired as some school projects are said to be coming in up to 30% over budget, causing concern that the proposed school estate upgrade will overspend.

Melton's South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College enlisted the help of procurement expert Pagabo to establish the new framework for jobs ranging from Ł50,000-Ł5m.

It will be introduced to schools and academies who are free to select their procurement route and want to use an alternative to the EFA regional frameworks.

Pagabo procurement director, Jason Stapley, said: "There is a huge gap in the market because SMEs are not being included in frameworks. We wanted to do something different as schools turn away from EFA and some other frameworks. This truly promotes smaller regional firms and doesn’t charge clients an upfront fee."

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