The 15-year framework agreement is the final award of 10 key delivery partners to join the Programme and Project Partners enterprise.

The last of the key delivery partner frameworks are part of the partnership’s multi-project procurement model, which has established long-term relationships with key supply partners to deliver work packages covering everything from building fit-out, groundworks and general civils to steelwork and cladding.

The Programme and Project Partners approach is a first of its kind, developed to draw on the unique expertise brought from each partnering organisation.

It is already helping achieve significant firsts for the nuclear industry and is seeing benefits from quicker engagement and reduced overheads through early contractor involvement.

John Rossiter, Programme and Project Partner’s head of supply chain, said: “Programme and Project Partners is changing the dial, creating an enterprise based on commercially aligned, incentivised, long-term contracts, which give surety of work, confidence to invest in the region and puts small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) innovation into the earliest stages of project delivery.

“The key delivery partners key suppliers are often SMEs that will benefit after Programme and Project Partners from the long-term engagement.”