{"id":45620,"date":"2014-07-25T10:54:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T10:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=078dca2f7f5929105ade00caa4cefed2"},"modified":"2014-07-25T10:54:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T10:54:58","slug":"news-story-dio-awards-estates-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=45620","title":{"rendered":"News story: DIO awards estates contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><abbr title=\"Defence Infrastructure Organisation\">DIO<\/abbr> has awarded 5-year next generation estate prime contracts to CarillionAmey Ltd:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>regional prime contract central England valued at \u00a3435 million <\/li>\n<li>regional prime contract south west England valued at \u00a3265 million<\/li>\n<li>regional prime contract south east England valued at \u00a3258 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The contracts provide planned and reactive maintenance including grounds maintenance and a 24\/7 helpdesk for estate-users, and have capability to deliver additional professional services, low value capital works and capital projects up to a value of \u00a33.93 million. <\/p>\n<p>The 3 contracts have the option to be extended up to an additional 5 years and ensure sites continue to be kept safe, legal and operational at all times.<\/p>\n<p>The new south west and south east England contracts replace the current regional prime contracts that were let in 2003 and 2005. The new central England contract replaces 2 existing regional prime contracts that cover central England and eastern England.<\/p>\n<p>The award of the latest 3 contracts represents another major milestone in the next generation estate contracts (<abbr title=\"next generation estate contracts\">NGEC<\/abbr>) programme following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/11-billion-defence-estate-contracts-awarded\">\u00a31.1 billion award of the national housing, national training estate, and Scotland and Northern Ireland prime contracts on 12 May 2014<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>These first 3 contracts were also awarded for 5 years, with the option to be extended up to an additional 5 years.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Construction work at a Typhoon aircraft maintenance facility\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/29055\/Typhoon_maintenance_facility__1_.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>Construction work at a Typhoon aircraft maintenance facility (library image) [Picture: Crown copyright]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Acting Chief Executive <abbr title=\"Defence Infrastructure Organisation\">DIO<\/abbr>, Mark Hutchinson, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am delighted that <abbr title=\"Defence Infrastructure Organisation\">DIO<\/abbr> has reached this important milestone in transforming the way it works. These new contracts will help <abbr title=\"Defence Infrastructure Organisation\">DIO<\/abbr> provide modern and effective infrastructure services to support defence capabilities and individual service personnel in a timely and cost-effective way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Over the last 10 years, <abbr title=\"Defence Infrastructure Organisation\">DIO<\/abbr> has rationalised the number of contracts it manages to deliver this service from over 250 down to 6 <abbr title=\"next generation estate contracts\">NGEC<\/abbr> prime contracts now. <abbr title=\"next generation estate contracts\">NGEC<\/abbr> prime contracts provide a common framework for contract management across the whole UK defence estate. <\/p>\n<p>They are designed to deliver value for money for defence and the taxpayer through a coherent set of contracts where prices for core services have been agreed in advance with the contractor, further improving financial certainty. <\/p>\n<p>Matt Foley, <abbr title=\"Defence Infrastructure Organisation\">DIO<\/abbr> Head of Future Procurement, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><abbr title=\"Defence Infrastructure Organisation\">DIO<\/abbr>\u2019s priority is to support our armed forces by providing the places they need to live, work, train and deploy on operations. Prime contracts provide a comprehensive contract framework and have been developed following an in-depth review of the defence estate and the requirements of our estate users.<\/p>\n<p>They have also been designed to provide operational capability at all times and are flexible enough to adapt to the future requirements of the defence front line; allowing for service requirements to be changed in a timely and cost-effective way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Our new prime contractors have faced a rigorous procurement and evaluation process. I am confident that the companies selected will meet the high standards required on the defence estate and I look forward to working closely with them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All 3 regional prime contracts are due to be in service by February 2015. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has awarded regional prime contracts valued at \u00a3958 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}