ProCure21 reveals its 12 partners

NHS Estates has chosen the 12 principal supply chain partners (PSCPs) to work on the £6bn national roll-out of ProCure 21 - and three major contractors have not made the list.

A total of 15 groups were shortlisted in May this year for the five-year contracts to deliver national publicly funded hospital building programme worth a combined £1.2bn a year.

NHS Estates has now made its decision and Skanska (which had Gleeson and Shepherd as principal supply chain members), Galliford Try and Willmot Dixon have all failed to make the grade.

The lucky 12 are:

Costain/Amec/Mowlem

Interserve/Fitzpatrick

Balfour Beatty with principal supply chain members Gleeson and AWG Construction

Medicinq (Bowmer & Kirkland/Osborne/Simons/Midas)

Sir Robert McAlpine/Norwest Holst

Laing O'Rourke

Kier

Carillion/Wilson James

Medicor (Pearce Health)

HBG

Taylor Woodrow

Wates

The list includes all five PSCPs that were assigned to the two pilot ProCure 21 framework contracts in the North West and the Midlands in April 2002: Costain, Interserve, Laing O'Rourke, Medicor and Norwest Holst. Skanska failed to make that list too.