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 Notice relates solely to the fifth 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 5 of the PSBP programme in the Midlands area 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 eight new build secondary schools in the Midlands. The schools involved in this fifth batch are:

— Alfreton Grange Arts College

— ARK Kings Academy

— Greenwood Academy

— The Phoenix Collegiate

— Plantsbrook School

— President Kennedy School

— Queen Elizabeth School

— Top Valley Academy

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