AtkinsRéalis wins one of four key contracts for UK Government Estate

This follows a robust and comprehensive procurement process via the Crown Commercial Services framework (RM 6165), with three-year contracts being awarded to suppliers.

AtkinsRéalis has been appointed to provide project management, cost management, design and health and safety advice to the GPA, as one of four suppliers on the programme.

Workplace Services Projects delivers a major programme of activity including:

• Life cycle replacement - investing in our estate to improve its condition and our customers' experience
• Net zero - retrofitting low carbon interventions in the estate to contribute to government targets in reduction of carbon emissions
• Client requested works - ranging from building refurbishment to delivering sites suitable for specialised events such as public inquiries

To deliver these works, the agency relies on the support of a carefully selected multi-disciplinary professional services supply chain to support an often challenging and changing portfolio of works.

Each of the four new multi-disciplinary project delivery partners has a wide national remit, which has been designed to encourage and reward high performance, innovation, and allows flexibility for suppliers to build up and utilise a breadth of knowledge and experience.

The GPA says project management, cost consultancy and design were the key drivers within tender documents.

Rand Watkins, GPA Client Director at AtkinsRéalis, said: “This new contract builds on our deep and strategic partnership with the GPA, having worked on the decarbonisation of the government office portfolio since 2021, and contributing to the agency’s ambition for a smaller, greener, better government estate. We are delighted to have this opportunity to develop the partnership further.

“The Workplace Services Programme will see the full multidisciplinary capability of the AtkinsRealis business come together to harness our expertise in the creation of modern, inclusive and sustainable workplaces for a modern Civil Service.”

Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office, Alex Burghart MP, said: “Maintaining the government’s position at the forefront of industry innovation is critical in helping us to meet our commitment to create a more modern, effective and cost-efficient public estate.

“This move towards greater collaboration and shared learning with key industry leaders puts us in a strong position to enhance our capability and capacity to deliver this transformation.”

Dominic Brankin, GPA’s Workplace Services Director, said: “These latest contract awards are significant steps in our desire to combine public sector know-how and private sector expertise with commercial acumen.

"The GPA is tasked with providing a service to central government departments through the management of an integrated and shared estate.

“Sustainability, net zero targets and economic regeneration are essential elements of our mandate to improve the Government estate and provide a smaller, more efficient and greener estate for civil servants across the United Kingdom. Utilising the services and expertise of world leading companies in partnership with others, enables us to further build on our successes to date.”

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About AtkinsRéalis   

Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-leading professional services and project management company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital. News and information are available at www.atkinsrealis.com or follow us on LinkedIn.  

About the GPA

The Government’s Levelling Up agenda and Places for Growth  initiative plans to relocate 22,000 roles, and 50% of UK-based Senior Civil Service roles, out of London by 2030. The Government is bringing forward its target to relocate 22,000 roles out of London from 2030 to 2027. 16,061 roles having already been moved out of London.
The GPA has nearly 1 million square feet of Government office space in its current portfolio. Using a common framework of design solutions aided by our partners we seek BREEAM Excellent and EPC A for new builds, and BREEAM Very Good and EPC B for refurbishments. The Government’s Places for Growth programme is helping grow the economy across the whole UK, with estimates showing that £30million in economic benefits are generated per 1,000 roles relocated, due to increased footfall and spending from staff. Through the Hubs Programme, the GPA is delivering smart, modern, sustainable and digitally-connected workplaces that focus on supporting productivity and wellbeing. 
Its Workplace Transformation Programme is introducing regional, people-centred, data-driven facilities management contracts that will support civil servants across the United Kingdom.