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Team on 13 February 2008
Skerritt win GBP18.2m prison contracts
Leading building services specialist Skerritt has won contracts worth GBP18.2m to supply services at HMP Nottingham and HMP Swaleside in Kent.
The company will install MandE services to ancillary buildings as part of a project to build new cell block facilities for 510 extra inmates at Nottingham and a new 180-cell block in Kent Willmott Dixon, who awarded Skerritt the contract, has a framework with the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), part of the Ministry of Justice, to help create extra capacity at prisons
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 10 Jan 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The GBP11 million Nottingham contract was awarded as the latest phase of extended works which have already included a new 178-cell block and 14-place segregation unit.
The old Victorian wings in the centre of the prison have been earmarked for redevelopment to bring the facilities up to scratch for a proposed new population of 1,000 or more prisoners.
Willmott Dixon upgraded meeting rooms, offices, workshops and the kitchen area at the prison in 2006.
Skerritt will supply mechanical, electrical and plumbing services along with CCTV, general and fire alarm services in key sections outside the new cell block in a contract worth GBP11m.
This latest phase includes modernisation of two wings, work stores, staff lockers and the prison's visitor centre Work also involves re-siting a new energy centre to supply services for the entire prison complex.
At Swaleside in Kent, Willmott Dixon is constructing a new 180-cell house block, with new vocational training, health care and segregation facilities in a deal worth GBP35m.
Skerritt has a GBP7.2 million contract to supply mechanical, electrical, plumbing services as part of modernisation work in the segregation block, gym and education building, along with car parking upgrades at the Category B security prison.
Skerritt MD Stuart Hill said: "Skerritt has an outstanding 25-year track record specialising in building and electrical services for the prison sector and already have 200 trained operatives who are experienced in working in a prison environment.
"We are looking forward to forging a strong partnership with Willmott Dixon".
Skerritt, based in Union Road, Nottingham, has a turnover of around GBP42 million - with prison contracts accounting for 55 per cent of this.
The company specialises in mechanical, electrical and plumbing building services both locally and nationally and employs almost 300 people.
Contracts with the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office form an important part of Skerritt's portfolio.
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