Pagabo names six collaborative partners on £5bn National Framework for Major Works

Pagabo has appointed BAM, Galliford Try, Morgan Sindall, Wates, Graham and Robertson as collaborative partners on its £5bn National Framework for Major Works 2026, to support early client engagement on major construction projects.

The framework manager said on 11 November that BAM, Galliford Try, Morgan Sindall and Wates would act as collaborative partners for England and Wales, with Graham covering Northern Ireland and Robertson covering Scotland.

Pagabo said the model is designed to let clients engage experienced contractors at the earliest stages of project development. By bringing delivery expertise in sooner, it said, clients can make better informed decisions and mobilise faster, with improved risk management and greater programme and cost certainty.

Amman Boughan, Pagabo Group CEO, said: "Through our pre-market engagement, we identified the introduction of the collaborative partner model as a route to bring clients and contractors together earlier in the process to create the conditions for better decisions".

Boughan added that having six partners gives clients a wider range of expertise that can be matched to their needs.

The framework

The framework agreement is live and runs for four years, Pagabo said. It is open to local government, NHS and health service providers, blue light services, housing and education bodies, and is free to access for all public sector organisations.

YPO, which Pagabo describes as one of the UK's largest public sector buying organisations, acts as the centralised procurement authority. Pagabo is the framework manager, responsible for design, delivery and ongoing management.

The official Find a Tender record shows Pagabo Limited procuring the framework on behalf of Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation (YPO) under the Procurement Act 2023. The notice says the framework was scheduled to start in October 2026 for a four-year term and is principally intended for works of £5m and above. Find a Tender lists a tender notice dated 27 April 2026 and contract award notices on 17 September and 2 October 2026.

Pagabo named 56 suppliers across five lots on 19 October 2026, with coverage spanning the North, Midlands, Southwest and Southeast of England, London, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

David Llewellyn, construction and infrastructure director at Pagabo, said at the time: "Through our role as framework manager, we will help clients procure confidently and compliantly,"

How the lots were set out

When Pagabo issued the tender on 28 April 2026, with a submission deadline of 22 June and an October launch, it set out Lot 1 as a Collaborative Partner lot. The tender described sub-lots for Delivery, Sustainability and Quality in England and Wales, plus Most Advantageous Tender sub-lots for Scotland and Northern Ireland, and said one supplier would be appointed per sub-lot.

The November announcement names four collaborative partners for England and Wales without referring to those sub-lot titles. Pagabo has not set out in its announcement how the four England and Wales appointments map on to the tender-stage structure.

Lots 2 to 5 cover value bands of £5m to £15m, £15m to £30m, £30m to £60m and £60m plus, with up to nine contractors per region and value band, according to the tender announcement.

The Pagabo and YPO partnership

The framework is the first Pagabo has brought to market with YPO. Pagabo announced a 10-year strategic delivery partnership with YPO on 21 April 2026, a little over a year after the Procurement Act 2023 took effect, which Pagabo said was still a source of caution for public bodies.

Jason Stapley, chief procurement officer at Pagabo, said at tender stage that it was the first framework brought to market with YPO under the new procurement regulations. Michelle Walker, head of procurement services at YPO, said the partnership was established to ensure procurement is a catalyst for real-world outcomes.

Previous generations

This is the third generation of the Major Works framework. Pagabo said previous iterations had helped deliver construction projects worth more than £3bn in total.

The second generation, announced in January 2020, was billed by Pagabo at the time as a £10bn, six-year framework with up to 28 contractors, split into three value bands across seven UK regions with six core contractors per lot per region.

The first generation dated from 2016. Jason Stapley, then managing director at Pagabo, said in 2020 that it had delivered £833m of public sector projects in 2019.

The 2026 framework runs for four years from its October 2026 start.