Pick Everard in the frame for Police contracts

Pick Everard has been awarded a 3-year framework agreement for Building and Design consultancy services for the five police authorities in the East Midlands region.

Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire Constabularies have jointly awarded the collaborative framework agreement as part of a strategy to simplify and streamline the complex processes involved in developing capital projects.

This framework agreement leaves the day to day running of capital projects to appointed companies, allowing police authorities to focus time and resources on policing.

Appointed parties will work together and share ideas and approaches, which reduces duplication, improves efficiency and avoids lengthy tendering processes.

Pick Everard's role will be to provide architectural design, quantity and building surveying, building services and structural engineering, clerk of works and health and safety coordination.

There is still a continuing competitive element and all companies in the framework agreement are required to tender for individual projects.

This ensures that the most appropriate and cost effective consultant is chosen in every case.

Pick Everard has already been successful in winning work within the framework agreement and has recently been appointed to provide multi-disciplinary services for two refurbishment projects with Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire police authorities.

Pick Everard partner Duncan Green comments, "This new contract adds further to Pick Everard's increasing involvement with police infrastructure management and development projects both in the UK and in Ireland".

Pick Everard has already provided quantity surveying for two police stations in Nottinghamshire.

Mansfield Woodhouse, a GBP1.25m steel framed two-storey building, was designed to meet sustainability and conservation area requirements and was constructed on a brownfield site.

A second station, costing GBP2.25m, was built on the site of a former public house at St Ann's, conforming with the highest environmental standards and the latest Part L building regulations, including maximising the use of daylight and passive ventilation, while meeting all the stringent security standards required by modern policing.

In Scotland, Pick Everard's Glasgow office provides design, mechanical and electrical services for all buildings in a 4-year contract with the Northern Joint Police Board for both refurbishment and new buildings.

Pick Everard has worked on the refurbishment of five police stations including Bonar Bridge, Lairg and Grantown.

In Ireland, O'Connor Pick Everard has carried out repairs to six Garda stations in the north-west of the country, surveyed earlier as part of a contract for the Office of Public Works.

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