Graham Takes Three Partner Roles on £4.3bn Pagabo Framework

Graham has won three of the five key collaborative partner roles on Pagabo's new £4.3bn national civils and enabling works framework. The contractor takes the delivery role for England and Wales, plus the single collaborative partner appointments for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

England and Wales is split into three specialist roles, giving clients access to different expertise from the earliest stages of a project. Graham takes delivery, Costain sustainability and M Group quality. Scotland and Northern Ireland are structured more simply, with one collaborative partner appointed in each country rather than three specialists.

The partners are designed to provide early involvement from project development through to delivery and can be appointed directly without further competition.

Pagabo has mirrored the model for enabling works. Demolition specialist Coleman takes the England and Wales delivery role, Cawarden sustainability and Rhodar quality. Rhodar also secures the single Scottish appointment, while Lowry Building & Civil Engineering takes Northern Ireland.

The framework is the first major procurement pipeline to emerge from Pagabo's new 10-year strategic partnership with Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation. YPO acts as contracting authority and Pagabo manages delivery. The tie-up is intended to reshape how the two organisations bring public-sector construction frameworks to market following the rollout of the Procurement Act 2023.

In total, 111 suppliers have been appointed across the 13-lot framework, including 44 national and 67 regional firms. It runs from October 2026 to October 2030 and covers projects from highways and rail to energy, defence, demolition, remediation and enabling works.

Away from the headline collaborative partner roles, 20 contractors have secured core positions in the framework's top £30m-plus civils bands. Kier Infrastructure and VolkerFitzpatrick have achieved the broadest coverage, winning core positions across all seven major sectors: highways, rail, water and environmental, maritime, energy, aviation and nuclear and defence. Alun Griffiths and John Sisk & Son follow with six £30m-plus sector appointments each.

The biggest lot for enabling works firms, covering jobs valued over £1m, saw Total Reclaims Demolition secure the widest geographical spread. The firm took core positions in 11 of the 12 regions, everywhere except Northern Ireland. John F Hunt follows with core positions across 10 regions, while Armac Demolition has nine. ACS Construction, CK Rail Solutions and MGL Demolition each secure six regional positions.

With the framework not launching until October 2026, the YPO-backed pipeline positions Pagabo to test its post-Procurement Act delivery model across more than a hundred suppliers over four years.