The projects shared around the 20-strong panel of firms includes university and blue light facilities. Time and cost performance achieved by the firms also came in close to target.

In its annual audit, the framework providers said the pipeline for 2024/2025 remains strong with a further 10 projects being actively procured, including large adult social care programmes, SEND schools, and more leisure facilities.

There continues to be a push toward energy-efficient building, with a rise in Passivhaus building techniques and projects targeting Net Zero in operation.

Launched back in in May 2023, the fifth-generation framework promotes the Government’s Construction Playbook approach and two-stage tendering with early supply chain involvement.

Keith Heard Framework Lead said: “Despite the economic pressures, time and cost performance has also been strong during the last year, with projects delivered within 5% of the contract sum and delivered on site within 1% of the programme. ”

He added: “Our data collected over the last 18 years clearly shows the success of the integrated team approach through two-stage open book, and we have never moved away from the model.”

SCF is managed in partnership between Hampshire and Devon County Councils and is available to all public bodies in the South East, London and the South West.