Hub launches EPS framework, at last

Two years after promising more efficient public procurement through a new engineering and professional services framework, the North West Construction Hub has confirmed the full list of approved Engineering & Professional Services Framework (EPS) consultants.

The EPS framework covers the following disciplines, broken down into a complex set of lots divided by contract value and geographic area:

ArchitectureBuilding and Quantity Surveying
Project and Programme Management
Multi Discipline Services
Sustainability and Environment
Valuation and Market Analysis
Mechanical, Electrical and Building Services
Regeneration
Landscaping and Artisan Services

Full list of consultants below

The full list of 55 consultants was published on a new website launched by EPS joint venture partners NWCH, Manchester City Council and the Centre for Construction Innovation at the University of Salford.

Hundreds of firms applied for a place on the EPS following a series of open days and invitation to tender in autumn 2010. The first successful bidders were not named until April 2012 .

The initiative began life at the North West Development Agency but was re-evaluated and delayed following the agency’s demise when the hub was handed over to the current partners.

The partners said the EPS will “enable public sector organisations, construction companies and built environment professionals to work in partnership to deliver projects more efficiently, on time and cost, with an enhanced focus on quality and added value outcomes to support local communities.”

For more information visit the dedicated EPS framework website

EPS consultants

AA Projects
Aecome
Aedas Architects
Ansell & Bailey
Appleyard & Trew
Atkins
Austin-Smith:Lord
Bernard Taylor Partnership
Beverley Clifton Morris
Bowker Sadler Partnership
Building Design Partnership
Capita Symonds
Davis Langdon
Dixon Webb
Drivers Jonas Deloitte
EC Harris
The Environment Partnership
Fairhursts Design Group
Faithful + Gould
Gill Massey
GVA
Halcrow GroupIan Simpson Architects
IGL Surveying
Jacobs Engineering UK
Jennings Design Associates
John McCall Architects
JYM Partnership
Keppie Massie
Kinnear Landscape Architect
KKA Architects
Lancaster Maloney
Lovelock Mitchell Architects
MaceMott MacDonald
NPS Property Consultants
Ove Arup & Partners
Paddock Johnson Partnership
Parsons Brinckerhoff
PRP Architects
Rider Levett Bucknall
S I Sealy & Associates
SDA Consulting
Simon Fenton Partnership
Steven A Hunt & Associates
Sweett UK
Taylor Young
Todd & Ledson
Triangle Architects
Turner & Townsend
URS Infrastructure & Environment UK
Wardell Armstrong
Wilkinson Cowan Partnership
WSPWYG Engineering