Mace Group

National recognition for the SECE team

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04/01/2008

Led by Hampshire County Council, the South East Centre of Excellence (SECE) team gained national recognition when it won the finance and procurement category of the Guardian Public Service Awards 2007.

With nine regions established across the country, Hampshire was chosen by SECE to lead on the construction workstream for the south east, and has put in place three tiers of framework contractor arrangements to serve projects from £50k to £50m+. The south east region encompasses all 74 authorities from Kent and Hampshire to Oxfordshire with a number of London Boroughs also accessing the arrangements.

Mace Group's public sector team has assisted Hampshire in the strategy, procurement, set up and collaborative added value initiatives with in excess of £1bn already flowing through the major projects framework. Mace's team has also advised SECE on specialisms such as the BSF programme and complicated civic office rationalisation schemes.

As one of the named framework contractors, Mace Plus has also successfully secured more than £100m of work on three school projects: Garth Hill in Bracknell, St. Bartholomew's School in West Berkshire and Teddington School in Richmond.

In presenting the award the judges recognised that the SECE major framework introduced in August 2006 was the largest and most ambitious procurement arrangement of its kind in the public sector with its ability to deliver up to £3bn of construction work while providing efficiency savings of around £40m.