The Priority School Building Programme ('PSBP') is a new schools programme. Its purpose is to rebuild/refurbish 261 schools. The PSBP contains a mixture of private finance and public capital projects. This Contract Award Notice relates solely to the second of the PSBP PF2 (privately financed) projects ('PF2 Projects'). The Education Funding Agency ('EFA') is seeking contractors to design, build, finance and maintain new educational facilities and provide services for Batch 2 of the PSBP programme in the North East of England. It is anticipated that the services are likely to include hard facilities management services and may also include some soft facilities services. The proposed term of the Contract will include an estimated 24 month construction phase and a 25 year operational term from the service commencement date of the final school to be completed in this batch.

The educational facilities will be delivered using the private finance (PF2) model to provide twelve new build primary and secondary schools in the North East of England. The schools involved in this Second batch are:

— Mandale Mill Primary School;

— Longbenton Community College;

— Front Street Community Primary School;

— Lingey House Primary School;

— Roman Road Primary School;

— Seaham School of Technology;

— Bedlingtonshire Community High School;

— The Duchess's Community High School;

— Laurence Jackson School;

— Hylton Castle Primary School;

— Hetton School;

— Shiney Row Primary School.

Further details are contained within the Descriptive Document and Pre-Qualification Questionnaire ('PQQ').