Laing takes on four police jobs

Laing Hyder has won £100 million worth of private finance initiative contracts from the Metropolitan Police Authority for the provision of three new divisional police stations and a training facility in the South East.

Four consortia bid for the £70 million package of work to design, build, finance and operate new police stations in Bromley, Lewisham, and Sutton, mounted-branch stables, an area headquarters, an area crime operations crime unit, and a scientific support command unit.

Unsuccessful bidders were Alfred McAlpine, Babcock and Brown, and the consortium of WS Atkins, Costain, Skanska, and Securicor.

On the £30 million contract for a fire arms and public order training facility in Gravesend, Laing Hyder beat off competition from Jarvis and Babcock and Brown.

Laing Construction will build all the facilities and Laing Hyder Facilities Management will provide FM services over the 25-year concession period. The company has invested £10 million in the project.

The total lifetime value for both contracts comes to £160 million. Construction will start mid-2000 and is aimed to be complete within two years.

l Meanwhile, contractors have been invited to tender for a £30 million private finance initiative contract to design, construct, finance, and operate a new constabulary headquarters, conference and training facilities, a call management centre, a resource deployment centre, and scientific support facilities for the Cheshire Police Authority.

Expressions of interest must be submitted by 20 December 1999.