New firms are entering the market in a move to increase competition to deliver bigger savings on the programme.
Laing O’Rourke, in joint venture with German specialist SAG Group, and French giant Bouygues are among new firms chasing design and build work.
Overhead Lines Design and Build Framework
New build
- Amec
- Balfour Beatty
- Babcock Networks
- Bouygues Energies & Service (France)
- Carillion/Eltel(Finland)
- Costain
- Laing O’Rourke/SAG Group(Germany)
Refurbishment
- Amec
- Balfour Beatty
- Babcock Networks
- Laing O’Rourke and SAG Group
NGET has stressed it aims to keep its options open on the extent of work placed through the design and build route until existing alliance agreements with its 15 contractors are due to be renewed in 2017.
In the meantime, it will carve up over-head powerline work between both procurement routes.
The new design and build approach will be trialled on several projects in the UK in a programme that will give the framework partners access to part of a planned £2.5bn work spend over four years.
Just last year Balfour Beatty signed a five-year contact extension worth around £750m under the Electricity Alliance East partnership.
While joint venture partners Amec and Babcock took a £650m deal for the Electricity Alliance West framework.
Other major partners include a Morgan Sindall and Vinci Energies joint venture and Carillion.
