Awarded

Priority School Building Programme (Batch 1 Hertfordshire, Luton and Reading).

Descriptions

The Priority School Building Programme (‘PSBP’) is a new schools programme. Its purpose is to rebuild/refurbish 261 schools. The PSBP contains a mixture of private finance and public capital projects. This Notice relates solely to the first of the PSBP PF2 (privately financed) projects (‘PF2 Projects’).The Education Funding Agency (‘EFA’) is seeking contractors to design, build, finance and maintain new educational facilities and provide services for batch 1 of the PSBP programme in Hertfordshire, Luton and Reading. It is anticipated that the services are likely to include hard facilities management services and may also include some soft facilities services. The proposed term of the Contract will include an estimated 24 month construction phase and a 25 year operational term from the service commencement date of the final school to be completed in this batch.The educational facilities will be delivered using the private finance (PF2) model to provide seven new build secondary schools in the Hertfordshire, Luton and Reading area. The schools involved in this first batch are:— Bishop's Hatfield Girls' School, Hatfield, Herts;— Goffs School, nr Cheshunt, Herts;— Kings Langley School, Kings Langley, Herts;— Longdean School, Hemel Hempstead, Herts;— Reading Girls' School, Reading, Berks;— Stopsley High School, Luton, Beds; and— Westfield Community Technology College, Watford, Herts.Further details are contained within the Descriptive Document and Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (‘PQQ’).