Pagabo £1.5bn Medium Works framework: procurement and delivery notes for project teams
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Pagabo has launched the third-generation Medium Works construction framework, a £1.5bn, UK-wide programme for projects up to £15m running from January 2027 to 2031 and managed on behalf of TEAL (The Education Alliance). Building on previous iterations that delivered £658m and more than 300 schemes, including the expansion of Nottingham College, the framework targets public-sector works such as education and civic buildings. The model matches projects to qualifying regional contractors by scale, value and complexity, aiming to strengthen local supply chains and improve procurement speed and cost certainty.
Technical Brief
- Framework lots will cover schemes from £0 up to £15m per individual project.
- Pagabo’s previous Medium Works frameworks delivered £658m of work across more than 300 completed schemes.
- Nottingham College expansion is cited as a reference project delivered under an earlier Medium Works iteration.
- Allocation mechanism matches each public-sector scheme to “best suited” regional contractors by scale, value and complexity.
- Model is explicitly geared to improving visibility and pipeline certainty for regional contractors facing workload volatility.
- Re-procurement is framed as a response to current economic conditions, aiming for greater agility and competitiveness.
Our Take
Pagabo’s role in recent UK schemes such as the £19.9m Priory Shopping Centre redevelopment and the £20m Outer West Leisure Centre signals that the new Medium Works framework will likely be a key route for mid-tier regional contractors targeting public-sector regeneration work.
With previous Medium Works iterations delivering £658m across more than 300 projects, the step-up to a £1.5bn programme from January 2027 suggests Pagabo is positioning itself as a primary procurement channel for sub-£15m schemes, complementing its separate £4.15bn national civils and infrastructure framework opened for bidding in May 2026.
In our infrastructure coverage, Pagabo appears more frequently than most UK framework providers, indicating that TEAL and The Education Alliance’s involvement here will give education and local authority clients a comparatively well-tested procurement route for small-to-medium capital programmes through 2031.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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