Brits ruled out of Thames job

摘要

British firms have been dropped from the competition to build £485m of flood defences in the Thames Estuary. As Building revealed in February, five bid teams had been shortlisted for the first phase of the Environment Agency's flood defence programme, but now UK firms Morgan Sindall, working in a joint venture with Grontmij; Mace, working with Volker Stevin; and Costain, working with Capita and URS, have been ruled out. The Environment Agency confirmed it had cut its shortlist to Jacobs and CH2M Hill, but said the project would involve UK firms in the supply chain.