McBains has been named as a supplier on Lot 1 and Lot 2 of Crown Commercial Service’s Construction Professional Services framework (RM6165) allowing the firm to be appointed to a call-off contract by either direct award or further competition.
Lot 1 and Lot 2, entitled ‘Built Environment and General Infrastructure’ and ‘Urban Regeneration’ respectively, are both dedicated to providing a wide range of industry expert construction professional services at discreet delivery stages (from inception to completion). The services are intended to support eligible public sector bodies in delivering a wide and varied range of major and minor building and civil engineering projects at locations throughout the UK.
The framework is available to all central Government departments and other UK public sector bodies, including local authorities, charities, executive agencies, the health sector, police authorities, fire and rescue services, education providers and the devolved administrations.
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is an executive agency of the Cabinet Office; supporting the public sector to achieve maximum commercial value when procuring goods and services. In 2020/21, CCS helped the public sector to achieve commercial benefits equal to £2.04bn – supporting world-class public services that offer best value for taxpayers
Providing national UK coverage, the framework has been awarded for a four-year period.
Anthony Coumidis, Commercial Director at McBains said: “We’re delighted that our public sector capabilities and experience have been recognised and warrant a position on the new CCS framework; enabling us to continue to provide construction-related professional services to the public sector.”
McBains has provided multi-disciplinary services to a variety of clients via three CCS lots of the framework’s predecessor (RM3174) since 2016.
For more information please contact Anthony Coumidis.
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