Mott MacDonald secures role on Scottish local authority framework

Mott MacDonald has been appointed to the Scotland Excel Engineering and Technical Consultancy Framework. The agency has secured a spot on eight service heaps on the renewed nationwide framework for Scottish local authorities, putting first in 5. 

The Scotland Excel Engineering and Technical Consultancy Framework (SETCF) is a four-year framework working till 2030, with an estimated worth of £160 million. It goals to assist all 32 Scottish local authorities and over 90 public sector our bodies to entry engineering and technical consultancy companies rapidly, whereas guaranteeing worth for cash.

When known as upon, organisations can now be supported by Mott MacDonald’s regionally based mostly groups unfold throughout 5 Scottish places of work. Wanting forward, the agency will assist ship infrastructure and asset funding aligned with Scotland’s Infrastructure Funding Plan, Nationwide Transport Technique 2 and local weather adaptation priorities. 

Alan Hendry, Mott MacDonald’s sustainability lead, UK and Europe, and Glasgow metropolis lead, mentioned, “The Scotland Excel framework is an important route for councils to entry high-quality engineering and technical help at a time of serious infrastructure problem.”

The appointment builds on Mott MacDonald’s longstanding relationships with Scottish local authorities, having been reappointed to successive iterations of the SETCF. By means of the framework, it has supported Councils throughout Scotland on transport planning, flood threat administration, bridges and transport buildings, coastal and maritime infrastructure and wider infrastructure planning and supply. 

This has included work for Metropolis of Edinburgh Council throughout bridges, drainage and flood administration, and help to Shetland Islands Council on the Honest Isle Ferry Terminal, progressing the venture from enterprise case to onsite supply.  

Hendry concluded, “With the widest geographic footprint of any main engineering consultancy in Scotland, together with 5 places of work from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen by means of to Inverness and Lerwick, our groups are ideally positioned to grasp and ship local priorities. We’re happy to proceed supporting councils to ship resilient, sustainable infrastructure that responds to local wants.”