An announcement is expected this month for which firms have been selected for the Hospital 2.0 Alliance framework, valued at £37bn
The NHS hospital framework will be in effect over 12 years and will see the construction of new hospitals as well as refurbishment and ancillary work on several existing hospitals.
The framework was opened for expression of interest in February last year, with very little information becoming available since.
16 firms were put on the shortlist
The firms from which the winners will be picked are:
- Bam Construction
- Bovis Construction
- Bouygues UK
- Dragados
- FCC Construcción
- Integrated Health Projects (Sir Robert McAlpine/Vinci)
- John Graham Construction
- John Sisk & Son
- Kier Construction
- Laing O’Rourke
- McLaren Construction
- Morgan Sindall Construction and Infrastructure
- Multiplex Construction Europe
- Sacyr UK
- Skanska Construction UK
- Willmott Dixon Construction
From this list, 11 firms will be chosen. The list of works is extensive, with the CPV codes as follows:
- 45112700 – Landscaping work
- 50700000 – Repair and maintenance services of building installations
- 45215000 – Construction work for buildings relating to health and social services, for crematoriums and public conveniences
- 51120000 – Installation services of mechanical equipment
- 71300000 – Engineering services
- 45110000 – Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work
- 45213312 – Car park building construction work
- 45215100 – Construction work for buildings relating to health
- 45233000 – Construction, foundation and surface works for highways, roads
- 45350000 – Mechanical installations
- 45351000 – Mechanical engineering installation works
- 45450000 – Other building completion work
- 48000000 – Software package and information systems
- 48100000 – Industry specific software package
- 50710000 – Repair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installations
- 51100000 – Installation services of electrical and mechanical equipment
- 71000000 – Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
- 71240000 – Architectural, engineering and planning services
- 71241000 – Feasibility study, advisory service, analysis
- 71242000 – Project and design preparation, estimation of costs
- 71245000 – Approval plans, working drawings and specifications
- 71315000 – Building services
- 71333000 – Mechanical engineering services
- 71334000 – Mechanical and electrical engineering services
- 71356400 – Technical planning services
- 71400000 – Urban planning and landscape architectural services
- 71500000 – Construction-related services
- 71541000 – Construction project management services
- 72224100 – System implementation planning services
- 90712000 – Environmental planning
Full information on the framework can be found here.
The framework is a part of the New Hospitals Programme
In January last year, the secretary of state for health and social care, Wes Streeting, announced that the original timetable for the New Hospitals Programme established by the previous government was unrealistic, and a new schedule was published.
The new timetable goes up to 2039, and involves much-needed repairs and extensions to existing hospitals, reparation of RAAC-afflicted hospitals, and the construction of brand new hospitals.
In his statement, Wes Streeting said: “I was shocked by what I found on entering the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). The programme was hugely delayed, by several years more than had already been revealed by the National Audit Office. Most shocking of all, the funding for the programme was due to run out in March of this year, with no provision for future years whatsoever. The money simply was not there. The programme was built on the shaky foundation of false hope and without the confirmed funding these building projects could not be delivered, let alone delivering them all in the next 5 years.
“If I was shocked by the state of this programme, patients ought to be furious. Not only because the promises made to them were never going to be kept. They also desperately need new buildings and new hospitals.”
