Carillion Joint Venture wins £370m Wolverhampton BSF project

Wolverhampton City Council announced that inspiredspaces, a company set up by Carillion and its Joint Ventures, had been appointed Preferred Bidder to deliver the council’s £370million Building Schools for the Future Programme(BSF).

This ends a 12 month procurement process in which Environments for Learning and inspiredspaces have each developed detailed proposals to deliver the programme.

inspiredspaces will join the city council and Partnerships for Schools, via Building Schools for the Future Investments (BSFI), to establish a Local Education partnership (LEP) which will be charged with delivering the programme.

The LEP will rebuild and remodel all 26 Wolverhampton schools who serve secondary aged pupils. The first four are Highfields Science Specialist School co-located with Pennfields Special School (Private Finance Initiative new build) and Kings C of E School co-located with Tettenhall Wood Special School (remodelled).

Councillor Patten said: “This is a significant day for the city. I want to congratulate inspiredspaces on being appointed as Preferred Bidder for our BSF Programme.We have been fortunate in having two extremely good bidders to work with, each of whom have a proven track record of success.However inspiredspaces has convinced us that it has the vision, determination and capacity to work with us to rebuild or refurbish all of our schools in a way that will make a significant difference to teaching, learning and the future prosperity of our city. They have demonstrated the capacity to meet the council’s ambitious plans to ensure that all 26 schools are transformed by 2014."