Alfred McAlpine seals £85m highways PPP

Alfred McAlpine has today (Thursday) sealed an £85m long-term highway maintenance PPP contract for Suffolk County Council.

McAlpine will manage the county's highway maintenance programme, working alongside the council's in-house construction team Suffolk Highways Contracting.

The four-year contract, which could be extended to nine years, will start next month and is expected to generate between £8m - £9m of highway maintenance work per year.

Ian Grice, chief executive of McAlpine, said: "We have been providing street-lighting maintenance services to Suffolk for some time and this latest development demonstrates our ability to expand the range of services we provide to our clients."