MoD delays its decision on £3.9bn scheme

A preferred bidder for the £3.9bn Ministry of Defence (MoD) Project Allenby and Project Connaught PFI will not be announced until the end of July.

Originally due this month, the selection has been postponed because the MoD needs more time to evaluate the bids.

Frances Howarth, communications and liaison officer for the scheme, told CJ: "After receiving the bids back in December we did an evaluation and carried out a revise and confirm exercise, which meant both consortia had to get their revised bids back to us by April."

The two teams battling it out to provide technical, administrative and domestic accommodation and associated support services for military and civilian staff in Aldershot and the Salisbury Plain area are the Abraxis Group (Amey/Bovis Lend Lease) and Aspire Defence (Mowlem/ Halliburton Brown & Root).