Batch 4, in Yorkshire, comprises seven secondary school construction projects and has an estimated total value of between £80m and £120m.
The design and build contract is being procured using the private finance (PF2) model. The two-year construction phase will be followed by a 25-year maintenance period.
The total Priority School Building Programme will see 261 schools rebuilt or refurbished.
The seven schools involved in this fourth batch are:
- All Saints Catholic College, Huddersfield
- Belle Vue Boys' School, Bradford
- Carlton Bolling College, Bradford
- Harrogate High School, Harrogate
- Oakbank School, Keighley
- Samuel Lister Academy, Bradford
- Whitcliffe Mount Business & Enterprise College, Huddersfield.
Some, such as these, are being privately financed; others are getting conventional state funding from the outset.
Request to tender should be submitted to the Education Funding Agency by 17th March 2014.
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