Morgan Sindall and Apollo are set to benefit from a £200m deal to deliver infrastructure in Scotland.
The two companies, along with Community Solutions Investment Partners, comprise WellSpring Partnership, which has been appointed to deliver over £200m of public sector infrastructure projects for West Scotland’s 17 hub partners.
The appointment has been made by Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) through the West Territory hub programme board.
One of the primary aims of the hub programme, managed by the SFT, is to bring public sector bodies together to provide services. The West hub will cover Glasgow, Inverclyde, East and West Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire.
Work will now start to develop outline plans in the £200m investment programme to be delivered over the next 10 years, which includes a range of health and education projects.
Projects across the West territory will be delivered through a joint venture company (hubCo) formed between the various public sector bodies and the WellSpring Partnership.
SFT said that the announcement of the WellSpring Partnership as the West territory hub preferred development partner was a milestone in the delivery of the SFT hub programme. The last remaining hub for the South West of Scotland is currently in procurement.
SFT chief executive Barry White said: “This is a momentous achievement for SFT and the hub team. In the past 18 months we have announced the appointment of the preferred partners for the South East, North, East Central and West hubs with the last preferred partner for South West hub to be announced in August 2012. When all hubs are operational they will deliver in excess of £1.4bn of infrastructure projects across Scotland by 2020.
“I look forward to the West hubCo working with local suppliers and contractors to deliver quality buildings to provide improved public services for communities right across the West hub territory.
“Across Scotland, the hub programme is currently building or developing well in excess of £100m of essential projects which in turn will support service improvements to local communities, and importantly helps protect construction jobs.”
