Contractors poised to bid for £460m school building work

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Contractors on the government's school building framework are primed to bid for around £460m worth of school building work over the next six months, Building can reveal. The work is set to come to market through the Priority School Building Programme (PSBP) in the form of 11 batches of capital-funded schools, covering London and the south of England. Market sources told Building the 11 batches (see table) are together worth £457m and comprise all of the remaining schools included in the original PSPB list that have not so far been procured. The batches are expected to be procured through the Education Funding Agency's (EFA) contractors' framework before the end of the year.