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It's official - the Acorn consortium (including John Laing, Laing O'Rourke, Interserve and BDP) has been appointed preferred bidder on the £237m Alder Hey Children's Hospital PFI project in Liverpool, UK.
I appointed Propozition to bring even greater clarity to our proposals.
Hospital PFI submissions are by...
Posted at 10:39h
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Propozition is delighted to welcome Miller as a new client and to help their Healthcare Solution Arm win their first design and build project under the £4bn NHS ProCure21+ health capital framework.
The project will redevelop the public face of Gateshead Queen Elizabeth Hospital, deliver a...
Posted at 11:06h
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Delivering the Kuala Lumpur MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) KL metro system is the largest infrastructure project in Malaysia's history (being similar in scale to London's Crossrail tunneling packages).
Five bidders reached the final stage of the procurement to deliver the prized underground tunnelling package worth RM8.2...
Posted at 09:00h
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The Leadenhall Building (or the Cheesegrater as it has become known) was identified as not only a new landmark building for the City of London but also a 'must win' project for Laing O'Rourke.
The building's sophisticated 'everything on show' architecture and complex construction method would require exceptional engineering capabilities. That is why it was...
Posted at 12:21h
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We worked with the partners and marketing team at Architecture PLB to translate their broad experience into bid responses that addressed a tightly prescribed procurement process.
With Architecture PLB's permission we telephone-interviewed their clients. This enabled us to unearth some valuable new data and testimonials we...
Posted at 16:12h
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Vinci bids teams faced a challenge that many teams will recognise: the need for multiple authors to produce compelling and consistently-presented bid responses in tight timeframes.
We responded with a twin track approach:
We trained their technical authors, bid managers and editors in simple techniques they...
Posted at 17:20h
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Nine years' worth of method and techniques that we've been using to write successful, high-scoring bids are now packaged up and available to share with our clients through training courses.
The feedback from delegates to this interactive and focused training has already been extremely positive.
For more...
Posted at 09:05h
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It was critical that Laing O'Rourke achieved a place on the top tier of this public sector buildings framework for Wales.
The interview presentation was the prime opportunity to not only reinforce Laing O'Rourke's core capabilities but also to demonstrate the added value that this bidder would...
Posted at 12:59h
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The RIBA-led design competition for the £120m new-build Guys & St Thomas' Cancer Treatment attracted nine contractors working with the world's leading 'starchitects' including Foster + Partners, Zara Hadid and Hopkins Architects.
We were engaged from the outset to develop an Expression of Interest document and initial presentation that...
Posted at 12:17h
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by Jonny Sherwin
Atkins is well-known for it's engineering advisory services. It also has a significant ICT and management consultancy business.
The UK government through 'Buying Solutions' launched a new procurement framework (RM662). Atkins identified up to four 'lots' it would target on this framework. Failure meant potentially being locked...
