Willmott wins £60m prison deals

Willmott Dixon has knocked up £60m- worth of prison work for the National Offender Manage-ment Service (NOMS) under a strategic alliance deal.

Work on a £25m house block for 180 inmates in Swaleside, Kent, is expected to start on site early next year. The scheme includes a healthcare centre, segregation unit, control room and car park.

In November 2007, Willmott Dixon is due to start work at B Wing, HMP Nottingham, in a deal anticipatedanticpated to be worth £35m.

The brief is for a house block for 510 inmates. Willmott is one of seven contractors NOMS lined up two years ago to build facilities and carry out minor refurb works nationwide.

[Contract Journal, 18 October 2006, p 2]