Contractors Find Shelter From Storm In Social Housing

摘要

This time last year Kier topped the league table with 58 new contracts worth ￡375m. That was July 2007 and a month before the words "credit crunch" became part of our everyday vocabulary.A year later, Morgan Sindall heads the leader board with 34 contracts worth ￡163m. The fact that it won less than half the value of Kier's contracts did is not a great portent one year into the downturn.Overall, the top 30 companies won 328 contracts worth ￡1.7bn in July, compared with 409 deals worth ￡2.2bn last year.