Interserve has launched a legal challenge to the award of £4bn worth of defence estate construction contracts to rival Carillion, prompting the Ministry of Defence to suspend the procurement process. The Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) estate arm the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has “suspended” the award of three defence estate construction contracts, together worth up
Skanska has won the bid battle to build a new military training centre to replace the Deepcut barracks in Wiltshire. Construction work is to begin later this month on the £250m Worthy Down project in Winchester. The scheme – known as Project Wellesley – will take around five years to complete and will provide accommodation
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed the private sector partner it intends to bring in to help improve the running of its estate. Today, 21 May, the department confirmed it intends to sign a strategic business partner contract for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) with Capita, working in conjunction with URS and PA Consulting. There
The Defence Infrastructure Organisation this morning announced the award of £1.1bn worth of deals. This included its national housing prime and Scotland and Northern Ireland prime contracts, which were secured by the joint venture partners. An Interserve subsidiary, Landmarc Support Services, also picked up a big win for the national training estate prime deal worth
Canary Wharf Group revealed this morning that it is starting enabling work on two major tower schemes on its London Docklands site. The two projects being fired-up for construction start include a major interlinked office tower complex at Heron Quays West and its first residential high-rise called the Diamond Tower. David Pritchard, Chairman of Canary
A surge in housebuilding since the beginning of the year maintained construction activity in the first quarter at levels not seen since 2007, according to a survey of the construction sector. The Markit purchasing managers’ index (PMI) recorded a rise in housebuilding activity to 64.2 in March, offsetting a slowdown in civil engineering to keep
The Ministry of Defence has announced Capita, working in conjunction with URS and PA Consulting, as its preferred bidder in the competitive procurement of a strategic business partner for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) – the organisation which manages and develops the defence estate. The 10-year contract, worth around £400 million, will help transform the
Shares in the troubled private security company Serco rose sharply on Friday after the company hired a respected FTSE 100 boss to lead its turnaround. Rupert Soames has been at the helm of Aggreko, the world’s largest temporary power generation and temperature control services business, since 2003. Soames, a grandson of Winston Churchill, will take
In a statement, Interserve’s board says the combined group will become one of the largest providers of support services in the UK, and that it will be ranked within the top three UK providers in terms of revenue. The statement also extols the benefits to be gained from the group’s increased scale, which it says
Britain’s biggest defence projects are running a total of 25 years late between them and it is unclear the Government can keep costs on target, the Whitehall spending watchdog has warned. The National Audit Office (NAO) raised concerns about the MoD’s ability to keep its £164 billion, ten-year equipment plan on target despite evidence the
