Guidance

PSBP: selected bidders – private finance batches

Updated 7 August 2015

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1. Private finance batches

46 schools in 5 batches will be rebuilt under the Priority School Building Programme (PSBP) following the government’s new approach to public private partnerships, known as PF2.

The information below gives details of the PSBP private finance batches of schools.

2. Hertfordshire, Luton and Reading

Number of schools: 7

Date released to market: 25 June 2013

Status: reached contract close with Interserve Kajima on the 19 March 2015.

All schools are currently under construction. The first school is expected to open in August 2016.

School Local authority
Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ School Hertfordshire
Goffs School Hertfordshire
Kings Langley School Hertfordshire
Longdean School Hertfordshire
Reading Girls’ School Reading
Stopsley High School Luton
Westfield Academy Hertfordshire

3. Midlands

Number of schools: 8

Date released to market: 2 April 2014

Status: reached contract close with Carillion Equitix on 12 August 2015

School Local authority
Alfreton Grange Arts College Derbyshire
ARK Kings Academy Birmingham
Greenwood Academy Birmingham

4. North east

Number of schools: 12 (6 primary and 6 secondary schools)

Date released to market: 30 June 2013

Status: reached contract close with Galliford Try on 10 March 2015.

All schools are currently under construction. The first school is expected to open in December 2015.

School Local authority
Bedlingtonshire Community High School Northumberland
Front Street Community Primary School Gateshead
Hetton School Sunderland
Hylton Castle Primary School Sunderland
Laurence Jackson School Redcar and Cleveland
Lingey House Primary School Gateshead
Longbenton Community College North Tyneside
Mandale Mill Primary School Stockton-on-Tees
Roman Road Primary School Gateshead
Seaham School of Technology Durham
Shiney Row Primary School Sunderland
The Duchess’s Community High School Northumberland

5. North west

Number of schools: 12 (5 secondary and 7 primary schools)

Date released to market: 6 November 2013

Status: reached contract close with Morgan Sindall Investments on 25 March 2015.

School Local authority
Bedford Drive Primary School Wirral
Blacon High School Cheshire West and Chester
Bridge Hall Primary School Stockport
Dee Point Primary School Cheshire West and Chester
Halebank C of E (VC) Primary School Halton
Hawes Side Academy Blackpool
J H Godwin Primary School Cheshire West and Chester
Neston High School Cheshire West and Chester
Plymouth Grove Primary School Manchester
Ridgeway High School Wirral
South Shore Academy Blackpool
The Deanery Church of England High School and Sixth Form College Wigan

6. Yorkshire

Number of schools: 7

Date released to market: 12 February 2014

Status: selected bidder stage with Laing O’Rourke

School Local authority
All Saints Catholic College Specialist in Humanities Kirklees
Belle Vue Boys’ School Bradford
Carlton Bolling College Bradford
Harrogate High School North Yorkshire
Oakbank School Bradford
The Samuel Lister Academy Bradford
Whitcliffe Mount Business and Enterprise College Kirklees