Among the main winners are Bowmer & Kirkland, Willmott Dixon and Neilcott Construction.

Although the promise of a £600m building programme over four years also attracted Mace, Farrans and Galliford Try to pitch in with successful bids.

The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham led the procurement for local authorities forming the East London Solutions Group.

These councils have decided to set up their own collective panel of building contractors covering three project value bands.

Local authorities signed up to the pretendered framework include the London Boroughs of Havering, Redbridge, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest, Bexley, Greenwich, Lewisham, Enfield, Hackney.

It will also be open to a host of academies, free schools, universities and colleges from within all of these council areas.

Partner builders on the previous smaller framework included Lakehouse, Bouygues UK, Barnes Construction, McLaren and Willmott Dixon.