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Two battle for £100m PFI streetlighting deal
15:38 17 Jul 2002
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by Brian Warner
Manchester City Council has turned the spotlight on two firms to contest a £100m privately financed streetlighting deal.
The client is focusing on Amey Highways and a Seeboard/Balfour Beatty Power Networks jv to work up best and final offers (BAFOs).
This means the lights have gone out for Alfred McAlpine, the third contender originally shortlisted.
A preferred bidder is expected to surface in October - about eight months later than expected.
A revised start date of February 2003 has now been pencilled in.
The first five years of the 25-year concession will mainly involve replacing 36,000 deteriorating lighting columns.
The rest of the time will be spent on maintaining and replacing streetlights, as well as illuminated signs and bollards.
The council's stock currently comprises nearly 53,000 lighting columns, 4,200 signs and 1,900 bollards on highways and housing estates and in parks.
l Amey Highways and Seeboard/Balfour Beatty should know by the end of this month if they are also in for the kill on a £50m PFI streetlighting scheme for Stoke-on-Trent.
Manchester City Council has turned the spotlight on two firms to contest a £100m privately financed streetlighting deal.
The client is focusing on Amey Highways and a Seeboard/Balfour Beatty Power Networks jv to work up best and final offers (BAFOs).
This means the lights have gone out for Alfred McAlpine, the third contender originally shortlisted.
A preferred bidder is expected to surface in October - about eight months later than expected.
A revised start date of February 2003 has now been pencilled in.
The first five years of the 25-year concession will mainly involve replacing 36,000 deteriorating lighting columns.
The rest of the time will be spent on maintaining and replacing streetlights, as well as illuminated signs and bollards.
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The council's stock currently comprises nearly 53,000 lighting columns, 4,200 signs and 1,900 bollards on highways and housing estates and in parks.
l Amey Highways and Seeboard/Balfour Beatty should know by the end of this month if they are also in for the kill on a £50m PFI streetlighting scheme for Stoke-on-Trent.
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