Race starts for £1.5bn Parliament estate upkeep deal

Aaron Morby 4 months ago
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The tender race has launched for places on a new £1.5bn framework to deliver the programme of on-going repairs and improvements to the Houses of Parliament and its wider MP estate in London.

The new Parliamentary Construction Partnership Framework will replace the existing MEPFS (Mechanical, Electrical, Public health, and Fabric Safety) Framework, which expires on 15 March 2025.

Works under the new seven-year framework will cover the medium term investment into the early 2030s, rather than the full Restoration and Renewal plan for Parliament, which has still to be planned and agreed.

The £1.5bn framework has been broken into four lots covering M&E, building and fit-out works.

Parliamentary Construction Partnership (CPF) Framework



•Lot 1: Total spend £500m – high value construction works of mixed discipline  (Projects worth £50m, and over)

• Lot 2: Total spend £425m – Medium value construction works, consisting predominantly of mechanical & electrical (public health, and fire) projects,  (Over £5m, but under £50m)

• Lot 3: Total spend £425m  – Medium value construction works, consisting predominantly of architectural, structural, heritage, roofing, and conservational projects (Up to £50m)

• Lot 4: Total spend £150m – Low / minor value construction works typically building, fit-out and M&E (Up to £5m)

Tens of thousands of hours of Palace building investigations are being carried out by the delivery authority to build on existing records and better understand the Palace’s condition.

Last year, specialists spent 4,850 hours examining 160 rooms and drilling boreholes up to 70m deep to assess ground conditions around the Palace of Westminster.

Dozens of major projects are underway to repair and restore key buildings by in-house teams including strategic estates, digital, and maintenance. Projects include Victoria Tower and Norman Shaw North.

Interested firms can click here for the pre-tender briefing and click here for the web portal. Applications need to be in by 11 October with the framework coming into force from 1 April 2025.

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