In 2005, Partnerships for Schools (PfS) procured seven national frameworks for advisory services to support local authorities in BSF to choose the right private sector partners to support them in delivering their local BSF programme (see press release)

The five* frameworks currently in operation are listed below, along with the timetable for re-procurement and list of framework contractors, in alphabetical order.

(For information about the Design & Build framework procured by PfS for the delivery of Academies, see the Academies process.)

Technical

Extended to 10 September 2008

• Atkins
• Currie and Brown
• Faber Maunsell
• Gardiner and Theobald
• Gleeds
• Mott MacDonald
• Navigant Consulting

Project and Programme Management

Extended to 10 September 2008

• Atkins Consultants Ltd
• Buro Four Project Services
• Hewitt Freeborn Associates
• Lend Lease Consulting
• Mott MacDonald
• Mouchel Parkman Services Ltd
• Navigant Consulting
• PKF
• Turner and Townsend

Legal

Extended to 28 February 2009

• Addleshaw Goddard
• Beachcroft
• Bevan Brittan
• Dickinson Dees
• Eversheds
• Hammonds
• White and Case
• Nabarro
• Norton Rose
• Pinsent Masons
• Trowers and Hamlins
• Ward Hadaway

Financial

Re-procured June 2008

• BDO Stoy Hayward LLP
• Deloitte LLP
• Ernst & Young LLP
• Grant Thornton LLP
• KPMG LLP
• Navigant Consulting (Europe) Ltd
• PKF LLP
• PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Education

Extended to January 2009

• Capita
• CfBT
• Cocentra
• Mouchel Parkman
• Place Group Ltd

PfS may to choose to extend (where possible) or re-procure any framework on expiry.  No final decisions have yet been made. If a framework is to be re-procured it will be advertised in the usual manner and subject to OJEU.

* The frameworks for Team and partnership development services and Communications services have now expired and have not been re-procured.

Local authorities wishing to find out more about the frameworks and how they can be utilised should read the BSF Frameworks User Guide on the secure part of the website, which will be available shortly. Pen pictures of the framework suppliers and their fees will also be available in this part of the website to local authorities who have signed the confidentiality agreement.

If you have any enquiries about the confidentiality agreement or accessing the framework information, please email bsfenquiries@partnershipsforschools.org.uk