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PPP contractors Morgan Sindall and Interserve have both announced falls in their first half profits for 2010, as the market continues to struggle. Read more...
A proposal for Central Bedfordshire’s waste PPP is among the first projects to be considered by the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC). Read more...
A £55m fund to invest in urban regeneration projects in Wales has been launched by the devolved government. Read more...
Housing minister Grant Shapps has unveiled a scheme to encourage more councils to build new homes. Read more...
Fears that defence PFIs may be reduced in scale, numbers or cancelled altogether are “unfounded”, according to the Ministry of Defence. Read more...
Davis Langdon’s US$354m takeover by international consultancy Aecom could increase the range of PPP projects the company works on. Read more...
Education Secretary Michael Gove has rejected a plea to reinstate one council’s school building programme. Read more...
Three bidders have been chosen to own and operate the transmission links between new offshore wind farms and the National Grid. Read more...
Brent Council has secured over £140m in private cash for the second phase of its Affordable Homes PFI project. Read more...
Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced 77 school projects will go ahead as originally planned, having been left up in the air following the education capital spending review. Read more...
Cambridgeshire’s Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is calling on bidders to pre-qualify for its £150m rebuild project. Read more...
The government has not abandoned PFI and PPP as methods of procurement, the Treasury has insisted. Read more...
The Scottish Futures Trust’s long-awaited Hub scheme to deliver a wave of new health centres has formed its first joint venture. Read more...
The upgrade and construction of acute hospitals will be fast-tracked under the new Procure21+ framework, the NHS has announced. Read more...
Two £350m EU-backed funds will use private money to kick-start regeneration in the North-West. Read more...
The local enterprise partnership (LEP) model is gathering momentum ahead of the September 6 deadline imposed by the government. Read more...
Small-scale anaerobic digestion plants could replace massive energy-from-waste incinerators as part of the government’s new waste review. Read more...
Education Secretary Michael Gove has signalled the government’s next school building initiative will seek to increase standardisation of design and contracts. Read more...
Tim Byles, head of the agency in charge of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, has defended his organisation’s involvement in the recent announcement on the scheme’s future. Read more...
Current borrowing on all PFI projects should be reviewed by the government, according to the National Audit Office (NAO). Read more...
