The Esteem consortium consists of Morgan Sindall Investments, Robertson Capital Projects and the Sewell Group. Robertson FM and Sewell FM will provide facilities management to the schools and RM Education will undertake the ICT managed service Join discussion...

Two rivals will now lock horns for a £230m Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project in the East Midlands. Derby City Council has pared the contestants down to Vinci Education and Balfour Beatty. The news means expulsion for a third bidder, Galliford Try. Join discussion...

Ealing Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme has narrowed their shortlist down to two bidders. Balfour Beatty Education and QED Education Environments have been chosen to go forward to the next stage of the £300m contract. Seventeen existing schools are set to benefit from the scheme along with a new school which is to be built in the north of the borough. Join discussion...

The firms are working for three consortia: Bovis Lendlease, Galliford Try and Willmott Dixon, which are competing for Wands-worth Council’s £300 million BSF programme. This is a 10-year deal that involves rebuilding or remodelling all 16 of the borough’s secondary schools and secondary special schools. Join discussion...

The government has spent £170m of a school refurbishment budget on consultants and only a handful of schools out of almost 25,000 have seen any improvements or been newly built, according to the shadow children's secretary Michael Gove. Quoting figures obtained through a Freedom of Information request, Gove said they threw into question the efficiency and cost control of the government's £50bn Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme. Join discussion...

Balfour Beatty has been awarded preferred bidder status on a £450m Building Schools for the Future project in the North West by two councils that have decided to run their programmes in partnership. Blackburn with Darwen Council and Bolton Council will work alongside Balfour Beatty to deliver their capital secondary schools project subject to financial close. Join discussion...

Projects and commercial partners, Tiffany Cloynes and Vincent King from law firm Cobbetts LLP look at the prospects for Private Finance Initiative (PFI) in the current economic climate. There has been some debate as to the impact of the current economic climate for PFI transactions. The contractual terms for projects which have already been signed should be robust enough to ensure that the new facilities and services are delivered as specified. Join discussion...

Blackburn with Darwen and Bolton Councils’ joint BSF bid has appointed Balfour Beatty Education as the preferred bidder for its £450 million schools development programme. The BDB Learning Partnership, led by Laing O’Rourke are the bidder losing out at this final stage. Join discussion...

Laing O’Rourke and Bouygues are set to go head to head for the £350 million Barking and Dagenham Building Schools for the Future contract. The two construction giants are both understood to have submitted pre-qualification questionnaires for the east London scheme. Join discussion...

The Rochdale Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme is a part of the UK Government's GBP55bn BSF programme, the company stated. LEP consists of Rochdale Borough Council, Building Schools for the Future Investments LLP (BSFI) and Carillion, which will build either build of refurbish 13 schools in three phases within a 4-year period.A Join discussion...