The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) has today announced the successful companies appointed to a new framework panel designed to enable local authorities and other public sector organisations to access technical engineering services more quickly and at a greatly reduced cost.

A total of 15 companies have been appointed to the Agency's new Engineering Panel, and will offer their technical services more cost effectively than on an open market basis; and more quickly, reducing the time it takes to procure under a fully compliant OJEU process by over four months.

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The services offered will cover a variety of disciplines including transport and highways, geotechnical and remediation, environmental, and mechanical and electrical engineering.

Steve Carr, Head of new Business and Economics at the HCA, said: "Our new Engineering framework panel shows the type of support we can offer to the sector, making it quicker and cheaper for local authorities and other publicly funded bodies to buy the technical advice and services they need.

"This enabling expertise adds value to our investment, and as well as our framework panels the HCA can offer further help and advice on procuring technical services. It's all part of working with local authorities at their request to help them achieve ambitions for their areas."

(CD/GK)