Race starts for £32m trio of Fort William schools

Aaron Morby 12 years ago
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Highland Council has started pretendering for five contractors to bid to build three schools in Fort William.

The school building programme has been packaged up to allow a firm to bid for multiple projects with a combined build value of around £32m.

Fort William Schools Programe

£10m Lundavra Road, Fort William.Combining Upper Achintore and Fort William Primaries to form a new eleven class school on croft land.

£15m Caol Joint Campus. A new eight class non denominational school to replace the existing Caol Primary School and a new six class Roman Catholic School to replace Fort William RC and Lochyside RC primaries. New school will be built in the grounds of the existing Caol Primary School.

£7m Gaelic School. A primary school for the provision of Gaelic Medium Education, located at Ardgour Road in Caol.

Contracts will be awarded for the schools at the end of the year.

Firms have until 14 May to submit PQQs, which are available from the Public Contracts Scotland website

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