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 third of the PSBP PF2 (privately financed) projects ('PF2 Projects').

The Education Funding Agency ('EFA') was seeking contractors to design, build, finance and maintain new educational facilities and provide services for Batch 3 of the PSBP programme in the North West of England. The services 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 West of England. The schools involved in this third batch are:

— Bedford Drive Primary School;

— Blacon High School;

— Bridge Hall Primary School;

— Dee Point Primary School;

— Halebank C E Primary School;

— Hawes Side Academy;

— J H Godwin Primary School;

— Neston High School;

— Plymouth Grove Primary School;

— Ridgeway High School;

— South Shore Academy (previously known as Palatine Sports College).

— The Deanery CE High School and Sixth Form College.

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