Carillion clinches £120m Kent Academies deal

Carillion has beaten Balfour Beatty in the race to win Kent County Council’s £120m Academies deal.

This is the biggest deal to be let so far through the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) Academies framework.

It will see Carillion delivering five academies over the next two years. Of the five schools, two will be built in Maidstone and one each at New Romney, Canterbury and Dartford. The first academy to be built will be the New Line Learning Academy in Maidstone, with work on site beginning this autumn.

Carillion chief executive John McDonough welcomed the win. He said the Kent scheme was the fourth major project the firm has won under the Government’s BSF programme with education proving to be “a huge growth area for Carillion.”

This latest win brings Carillion into second place in the BSF Academies league table. Carillion has now won £155m of work under the framework. This includes the Kent deal, the £30m North Nailsea one school pathfinder scheme in Somerset, the £30m Joseph Rowntree Academy in York and the £38m Essex Academy deal.

Balfour Beatty is in third place with £155m of work and Kier is fourth with £55m of Academy deals. However Willmott Dixon is still the front runner by a clear margin with £257m of work won under the framework.
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