Four aim for prime contract

Four groups will pick up the tender paperwork in July for the last of Defence Estates' five regional prime contracts.
The line-up for the £400m-plus deal includes two joint ventures - Babcock Support Services/Dyncorp and Carillion/Enterprise Managed Services.
Mowlem and Prime Serve UK (Balfour Beatty and Atkins) are the other combatants.
The scheme involves capital works, facilities management and property maintenance services at more than 40 Ministry of Defence sites in 12 counties - Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland
and Suffolk.
The contract will initially run for at least seven years, with an option to extend it for up to 10.