Here’s our round-up of the UK construction OJEU Tender Notices released this week, ordered alphabetically by types of work:

Architectural
Greenock: Architectural and related services
Sector: Regeneration
Value: £2m – £5m
Deadline: 23 June 2014

Glasgow: Architectural and related services
Sector: Housing and community amenities
Value: £3.5m – £4m
Deadline: 30 June 2014

St Albans: Architectural design services
Sector: General public services, Recreation, culture and religion
Value: £6.75m
Deadline: 2 July 2014

Coleraine: Architectural and related services
Sector: Education
Value: £100k – £120k
Deadline: 27 June 2014

Cleaning Services
Welwyn Garden City: School cleaning services
Sector: Education; Other: Catering and Cleaning Consultancy
Deadline: 26 June 2014

Staines: Cleaning services
Sector: Housing and community amenities
Value: £756k
Deadline: 30 June 2014

Eastbourne: Cleaning services
Sector: Education
Value: £800k – £2m
Deadline: 30 June 2014

Lisburn: Cleaning services
Sector: General public services
Value: £800k – £2m
Deadline: 30 June 2014

Staines: Cleaning services
Sector: Housing and community amenities
Value: £756k
Deadline: 30 June 2014

Eastbourne: Cleaning services
Sector: Education
Value: £800k – £2m
Deadline: 30 June 2014

Consultancy
Manchester: Building consultancy services
Sector: General public services
Value: £700k
Deadline: 2 July 2014

Hugh Town: Consulting services for water-supply and waste consultancy
Sector: General public services
Value: £110k – £175k
Deadline: 31 July 2014

Construction & Engineering
Norwich: Construction work
Sector: General public services
Value: £1bn – £2bn
Deadline: 9 June 2014

Glasgow: Building construction work
Sector: General public services
Value: £3m – £6m
Deadline: 27 June 2014

Glasgow: Building construction work
Sector: Housing and community amenities
Value: £3m – £6m
Deadline: 27 June 2014

Aylesbury: Catheter room construction work
Sector: Health
Deadline: 27 June 2014

London: Construction-related services
Sector: General public services
Value: £7m – £10m
Deadline: 27 June 2014

Liverpool: Construction work for buildings relating to education and research
Sector: Education
Value: £6.5m – £7.5bn
Deadline: 30 June 2014

Winchester: Construction work
Sector: General public services; Public order and safety; Environment; Economic and financial affairs; Health; Housing and community amenities; Social protection; Recreation, culture and religion; Education
Value: 3 lots worth a total of between £1bn – £3.9bn
Deadline: 1 July 2014

Northampton: Building alteration work
Sector: General public services
Deadline: 1 July 2014

Cardiff: Engineering works and construction works
Sector: Environment, Transport
Value: £25m – £30m
Deadline: 2 July 2014

Egham: Construction work for university buildings
Sector: General public services
Value: £30m – £40m
Deadline: 3 July 2014

Oldham: Building construction work
Sector: Recreation, culture and religion
Value: £15m – £25m
Deadline: 7 July 2014

Londonderry: Construction work
Sector: Housing and community amenities
Value: £15.6m
Deadline: 10 July 2014

Demolition
Reading: Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work
Sector: General public services; Economic and financial affairs
Value: £5.5m
Deadline: 30 June 2014

Electrical Supplies
Nottingham: Electrical supplies and accessories
Sector: Education
Value: 5 lots worth a total of between £200k – £700k
Deadline: 7 July 2014

Facilities Management
Durham: Facilities management services
Sector: Education
Deadline: 2 July 2014

Fire Prevention
London: Fire-prevention installation works
Sector: Parliament UK
Value: £11m
Deadline: 2 July 2014

Grounds Maintenance
Inverness: Trees
Sector: General public services
Value: £343k
Deadline: 7 July 2014

London: Grounds maintenance services
Sector: Housing and community amenities
Deadline: 8 July 2014

Highways
Swindon: Construction, foundation and surface works for highways, roads
Sector: General public services
Value: £2.25m – £3m
Deadline: 14 July 2014

Kitchen Fitting
Nottingham: Installation of fitted kitchens
Sector: General public services
Value: £2.5m – £3.5m per annum
Deadline: 30 June 2014

Basingstoke: Installation of fitted kitchens
Sector: Housing and community amenities
Value: £250k – £1m
Deadline: 2 July 2014

Plant Hire
Hire of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment with operator
Sector: Water
Value: 3 lots worth between £10m – £60m
Deadline: 16 June 2014

Refuse & Waste
Bradford: Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services
Sector: Water
Value: £2m – £3.5m
Deadline: 25 June 2014

Dudley: Refuse and waste related services
Sector: General public services
Deadline: 11 July 2014

Durham: Refuse and waste related services
Sector: Health
Deadline: 14 July 2014

St Asaph: Refuse and waste related services
Sector: Health
Value: £400k
Deadline: 14 July 2014

Edinburgh: Refuse and waste related services
Sector: Education
Value: £175k
Deadline: 15 July 2014

Telford: Refuse recycling services
Sector: General public services
Value: £150k – £190k
Deadline: 21 July 2014

Topographical
Warrington: Topographical services
Sector: Water
Value: £4m
Deadline: 9 July 2014

Do you want to pre-qualify for any of these projects? The Propeller Bid Response team can help you. Contact us on 01462 004477 or via our online contact form.

Only 6% of developers believe hitting a target of delivering 200,000 new homes every year is achievable, despite many expecting an upswing in construction activity, according to an industry poll.

The Building Momentum report from property consultancy Knight Frank, shows that the majority of builders expect new home starts to increase by at least 10% over the coming year, with almost half predicting rises of up to 25%.

However, most believe this will not be enough to plug the housing gap the country faces. Around one in three builders (30%) said that 180,000 new homes a year would be the maximum that could be feasibly delivered on a regular basis.

Three-quarters of respondents said that the extension of the Government’s Help to Buy scheme will boost development between now and 2020. Another 40% believe it will increase the size of schemes.

Grainne Gilmore, head of UK research at Knight Frank, said: “There is no doubt that developers have stepped up activity since the zenith of the financial crisis – official data shows completions in England rose 4.5% over the last year – but this still leaves development some way off the levels needed to meet demand across the UK.

“Consistency of housing policy is fundamental to boosting supply as well as expanding access to public sector land. It is likely that the confidence engendered by the Government intervening in the housing market – via the Help to Buy scheme – has had a bigger effect on prices than the scheme itself.

“Next year’s general election throws up some uncertainty about Help to Buy. Labour have not commented on their intentions around the equity loan, although they too have criticised the mortgage guarantee. Also, finding a suitable unwinding mechanism for the equity loan will be paramount in the coming years if a ‘cliff edge’ market distortion is to be avoided in six years’ time.”

Last year, a study by the Association of Consulting Engineers forecast that the UK will need a ‘missing city’ of 886,000 new homes by 2021 to meet demand.

£23m of infrastructure investment has been earmarked for Bristol, Manchester, New Anglia and Leicestershire as part of the Government’s plans to improve and expand enterprise zones.

The money will fund road, utilities and building construction, creating 5,700sq.m of new commercial floorspace and new road networks to support the development of the sites.

The £23m investment will fund:
• Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone – £6m for commercial development in an around the new city centre;
• MIRA Technology Park Enterprise Zone – £7.4m for the construction of a new spine and distribution roads with a roundabout to increase access to the Hinckley site;
• Great Yarmouth Enterprise Zone –£3m to deliver 5700 square metres of speculative office and industrial units, as well as road and utilities for Beacon Park;
• Manchester Airport Enterprise Zone – £6m to open up key sites to attract companies in life science and the IT and technology sectors.

This latest round of funding is the last of a £550m package of enterprise zone support, which has funded infrastructure developments to help turn sites into prime economic land.

Over the past three years, enterprise zones have created over 9000 jobs, attracted over 300 businesses and secured £1.2bn of private sector investment.

Kris Hopkins MP said,

“Enterprise Zones are showing that our long term economic plan to secure a better future is spreading businesses, jobs and skills training across the country. Today’s cash injection will give 4 zones the raw ingredients to make their sites a stronger, more competitive business environment that will attract new jobs for hardworking local people.”

Here’s our round-up of the UK construction OJEU Tender Notices released this week, ordered alphabetically by types of work:

Architectural
Coleraine: Architectural and related services
Sector: Education
Value: £160k – £340k
Deadline: 20 June 2014

Dorchester: Architectural services for buildings
Sector: General public services
Value: £200k – £250k
Deadline: 20 June 2014

London: Architectural services for buildings
Sector: Housing and community amenities
Value: 3 lots worth between £4m – £15m
Deadline: 23 June 2014

Greenock: Architectural and related services
Sector: Urban regeneration
Value: 12 lots worth a total of between £2m – £5m
Deadline: 23 June 2014

Beverley: Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
Sector: General public services
Value: £8.7m
Deadline: 30 June 2014

Bristol: Architectural design services
Sector: General public services; Housing and community amenities; Recreation, culture and religion
Value: £3m
Deadline: 2 July 2014

Edinburgh: Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
Sector: Conservation
Value: £130k – £170k
Deadline: 25 July 2014

Asbestos Removal
Coalville: Asbestos removal services
Sector: Housing and community amenities
Value: £400k – £600k
Deadline: 27 June 2014

Bristol: Asbestos removal services
Sector: General public services; Housing and community amenities
Value: 4 lots worth a total of between £5.9m – £6.4m
Deadline: 2 July 2014

Buildings of historical interest
Lanark: Buildings of particular historical or architectural interest
Sector: Heritage Management
Value: £305m – £4.5m
Deadline: 5 June 2014

Buxton: Buildings of particular historical or architectural interest
Sector: Leisure
Value: £22.5m
Deadline: 9 June 2014

Cleaning Services
Shewsbury: Cleaning services
Sector: Education
Value: £600k
Deadline: 30 June 2014

Preston: School cleaning services
Sector: Education
Value: £280k
Deadline: 1 July 2014

Tewkesbury: School cleaning services
Sector: Education
Deadline: 4 July 2014

Inverness: Cleaning services
Sector: General public services
Deadline: 7 July 2014

Kettering: School cleaning services
Sector: Education
Value: £100k – £200k
Deadline: 11 July 2014

Consultancy
Peterborough: Energy-efficiency consultancy services
Sector: General public services
Value: £10m – £25m
Deadline: 13 June 2014

Glasgow: Construction consultancy services
Sector: Recreation, culture and religion
Value: £2m
Deadline: 19 June 2014

London: Building-fabric consultancy services
Sector: Education
Value: £3m – £4m
Deadline: 1 July 2014

Construction
Huyton: Construction work
Sector: General public services
Value: £5m – £6m
Deadline: 9 June 2014

Twickenham: Construction work
Sector: Housing and community amenities
Value: £8m – £12m
Deadline: 19 June 2014

London: Construction work
Sector: General public services
Value: £3.5m – £4.5m
Deadline: 20 June 2014

Lancaster: Building construction work
Sector: Education
Deadline: 23 June 2014

Wakefield: Construction work
Sector: General public services
Value: £5.5m
Deadline: 24 June 2014

Londonderry: Construction work for buildings relating to education and research
Sector: Education
Value: £24m
Deadline: 25 June 2014

Felixstowe: Building construction work
Sector: Port-related activities
Value: £3.5m – £4.5m
Deadline: 11 July 2014

Engineering
Caernarfon: Engineering services
Sector: General public services; Environment
Value: £3m – £6m
Deadline: 16 June 2014

Forfar: Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
Sector: General public services; Environment
Value: £10.5m
Deadline: 27 June 2014

Kilmarnock: Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
Sector: General public services
Value: £20bn – £40bn
Deadline: 8 July 2014

Glasgow: Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
Sector: Urban railway, tramway, trolleybus or bus services
Deadline: 18 July 2014

Equipment Hire
Norwich: Hire of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment with operator
Sector: General public services
Deadline: 8 July 2014

Gas
Sandbach: Gas distribution and related services
Sector: General public services
Deadline: 20 June 2014

Housing Services
Alloa: Housing services
Sector: Housing and community amenities
Value: £125k – £175k
Deadline: 30 June 2014

Metalwork
Belfast: Metalworking
Sector: General public services
Value: £125k
Deadline: 3 July 2014

Project & Design
High Wycombe: Project and design preparation, estimation of costs
Sector: Defence
Value: £1m – £1.2m
Deadline: 25 June 2014

Andover: Construction project management services
Sector: Defence
Value: Management, planning and infrastructure: £1.5bn – £2bn; Gross development value: £7bn – £7.5bn
Deadline: 26 June 2014

Refuse & Waste
Liverpool: Waste-tip management services
Sector: Housing and community amenities
Value: £1.45m
Deadline: 24 June 2014

Leeds: Refuse and waste related services
Sector: General public services
Deadline: 25 June 2014

High Wycombe: Refuse and waste related services
Sector: General public services
Value: £504k
Deadline: 4 July 2014

Cardiff: Refuse recycling services
Sector: Environment
Deadline: 7 July 2014

Repair & Maintenance
London: Repair and maintenance services of building installations
Sector: Education
Value: £3m – £4.9bn
Deadline: 23 June 2014

Plymouth: Repair and maintenance services
Sector: General public services
Value: £780k
Deadline: 25 July 2014

Roofing
Stevenage: Roof works and other special trade construction works
Sector: General public services
Value: £15.8m
Deadline: 23 June 2014

Do you want to pre-qualify for any of these projects? The Propeller Bid Response team can help you. Contact us on 01462 440077 or via our online contact form.

Liverpool City Council has launched plans for regeneration schemes worth £1.5bn, which could create 12,000 construction jobs.

New projects for the city include the next phase in the regeneration of Kings Dock, which includes an Olympic-standard ice rink, along with an extreme sports complex, restaurants and family homes.

Parts of Lime Street and Mount Pleasant are set for transformation, with plans to deliver a new television and music venue, hotel, cinema, family restaurants, shops and accommodation for mature students.

Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson said,

“Regenerating the city centre is vital but we are also working hard to deliver transformation across Liverpool as a whole – Greater Homer Street, Edge Lane and Anfield are all now seeing significant progress and there will be more to come in the future, with thousands of new and refurbished homes planned city-wide.”

Planning applications will be submitted by the end 2014/early 2015.