YPO has selected 109 suppliers for a national civil engineering, infrastructure and enabling works framework with an estimated value of £4.295bn including VAT, bringing contractors from major infrastructure groups through to demolition, groundworks and regional civils specialists onto the four-year procurement vehicle.
Pagabo is running the procurement as YPO's agent, with the framework covering 13 lots across highways, rail, water, maritime, energy, aviation, nuclear and defence, demolition, land remediation and groundworks. The award decision was made on 15 September 2026, but appointment to the framework does not give any of the 109 firms a guaranteed share of the £4.295bn headline value.
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109 suppliers named on the £4.295bn framework
The Find a Tender contract award notice names Balfour Beatty Rail, Costain, Galliford Try, John Graham Construction, John Sisk & Son, Kier, Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure, Skanska Construction UK and VolkerFitzpatrick among the larger infrastructure businesses appointed. The supplier register is considerably broader than the national contractors at the top of the market. It also includes AmcoGiffen, Amey Highways, Breheny Civil Engineering, Eric Wright Civil Engineering, Esh Construction, Galldris, JN Bentley, Knights Brown, M Group Highways, McLaughlin & Harvey, Octavius Infrastructure, Story Contracting, Taylor Woodrow and Winvic.
London and south-east specialists also appear in the 109-name register, including Erith Contractors, John F Hunt Regeneration, Galldris Services and Land & Water Services. The mix illustrates the breadth of the framework, which is intended to be available to public-sector bodies across the UK rather than serving one client programme or one category of infrastructure work. Several of the larger names also feature in LCM's 2026 analysis of major UK and London Tier 1 contractors, but the framework also gives a route to market for regional contractors and specialist businesses operating in civils and early works.
What the 13 framework lots cover
The new framework combines mainstream infrastructure delivery with a substantial enabling-works offer. Pagabo and YPO have separated specialist infrastructure sectors from demolition, ground remediation and full enabling works rather than placing all early-stage activity into a single general civils lot.
| Framework area | Confirmed scope |
|---|---|
| Civils collaborative partners | Collaborative partner positions covering England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, including delivery, sustainability and quality roles. |
| Infrastructure | Highways, rail, water and environmental works, maritime, energy, aviation, nuclear and defence, and rail systems. |
| Demolition | Soft strip, structural demolition, asbestos removal, decontamination, decommissioning, site clearance and protection of adjoining assets and services. |
| Land remediation and groundworks | Contaminated land remediation, bulk earthworks, ground improvement, piling, foundations, drainage, attenuation and substructure preparation. |
| Full enabling works | Combined demolition and remediation scopes plus utility diversions, disconnections and other early infrastructure required before main works. |
The rail-systems lot carries an additional delivery requirement: the award notice says appointed suppliers must be capable of self-delivering the relevant track, platform, electrification, signalling, telecommunications, power and systems-integration scope rather than relying on a subcontracting delivery model. For demolition and full enabling works, suppliers are required to hold the appropriate asbestos-removal licence and remain members of a recognised registration body such as the National Federation of Demolition Contractors for the duration of the framework.
£4.295bn is framework capacity, not guaranteed contractor revenue
LCM analysis: the most important commercial distinction is what the £4.295bn figure actually represents. The award notice gives that amount as the estimated framework value including VAT and states that framework lot values may be shared between lots. It is not £4.295bn of construction work already ordered from the 109 suppliers, nor should the figure be divided by 109 to estimate the value available to each contractor.
A framework appointment gives an approved supplier access to future procurement under the framework terms. Actual turnover will depend on work subsequently procured by public-sector clients and the individual contracts that follow. LCM made the same distinction when examining the £9.5bn UK Public Works Framework, where the framework ceiling represented procurement capacity rather than committed spend. The 109 appointments therefore matter as market access rather than as 109 individual project awards. The Find a Tender notice does not allocate a guaranteed contract value to Costain, Galliford Try, Erith, Morgan Sindall or any other named supplier.
Pagabo combines two existing infrastructure routes
The framework replaces and combines Pagabo's existing National Framework for Civils and Infrastructure and National Framework for Demolition and Land Preparation. Pagabo said when procurement opened in May that the combined framework would become its largest infrastructure procurement offer to date and would operate under the Procurement Act 2023 and Procurement Regulations 2024. The award notice records an open procurement procedure. For contractors tracking the wider public-sector market, the appointment also moves this framework out of the tender pipeline and into the award stage; LCM's 2026–27 construction frameworks tracker distinguishes between frameworks still accepting bids, those under evaluation and those already awarded because the commercial opportunity is different at each stage.
Framework expected to start on 1 October
The award decision was taken on 15 September and the standstill period runs until 25 September. The Find a Tender notice gives 28 September as the earliest date the framework agreement can be signed, with the four-year term currently estimated to run from 1 October 2026 until 30 September 2030. The next formal step is therefore execution of the framework agreement after the standstill period. Individual construction opportunities will follow through public-sector procurement under the framework; no specific future project, call-off value or workload for any one of the 109 suppliers is guaranteed by this award notice.
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Expert Verification & Authorship: Mihai Chelmus Founder & Editor, London Construction Magazine | Construction Testing & Investigation Specialist |