Amey wins £120m Wakefield streetlighting PFI

An Amey-led consortium has been confirmed as preferred bidder for Wakefield District Council's £120m streetlighting PFI deal.

The project is expected to start this summer and is worth to £90m to Amey and £30m to its partner Laing Investments. Under the terms of the contract, Amey Highways will assume responsibility for the management and implementation of the replacement programme and ongoing repair and maintenance of the council's entire lighting stock, totalling some 40,700 street lights. A total of 30,000 expired lighting stock is to be replaced and upgraded during the first five years of the contract.

This is the second streetlighting PFI contract that Amey has won since closing Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council's public lighting PFI contract in March last year.