The CLC has welcomed the Infrastructure and Project Authority’s (IPA) procurement pipeline which identifies plans to go forward throughout the 2020-21 financial year
The procurement pipeline includes over 340 procurement contracts across 269 projects, programmes and other investments. It also sets out a projection of infrastructure procurement over the next year of up to £37bn.
The pipeline will provide much-needed confidence and certainty to the market during the Covid-19 pandemic – and as such is a key part of the CLC’s ‘Road to Recovery‘.
Government and industry working together
Nick Smallwood, chief executive of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, said: “This year has already brought unprecedented challenges for the construction sector.
“Covid-19 has had a global impact in ways we could not have foreseen and the construction sector is no exception.
“Government is committed to working collaboratively with industry to ensure that it emerges from this crisis with the capability and capacity required to support the economic rebuilding that will be necessary.
“This collaboration has already been demonstrated in the initial response to Covid-19, which saw government and industry working together on a number of initiatives including issuing guidance on responsible and fair contractual behaviours.”
Facing challenges head-on
Andy Mitchell, chair, said: “The construction sector is facing an unprecedented challenge as a result of Covid-19.
“As the largest single client of economic and social infrastructure, a strong & clear pipeline of work from government is vital to generating confidence and certainty.
“I am therefore delighted that the government has today [16 June] responded to one of the proposals in the CLC Industry Recovery Plan and look forward to working with government to deliver these projects over the months and years to come.”
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