Pagabo £4.29bn civil engineering framework: delivery insights for project teams
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on New Civil Engineer
30 Second Briefing
AtkinsRéalis, Costain, Graham, M Group and Octavius have secured places on Pagabo’s £4.29bn National Framework for Civil Engineering, Infrastructure and Enabling Works 2026, covering large-scale public sector highways, structures and enabling packages. The framework is expected to be used by councils, NHS trusts and other public bodies to procure multi-year programmes of road upgrades, bridge works, flood defences and site preparation under pre-agreed NEC-style contracts. Contractors can now position design-and-build teams and supply chains early, with clearer pipelines for geotechnical investigations, temporary works and complex traffic management.
Technical Brief
- Pagabo’s structure typically splits work into value bands, affecting which contractors pursue which package sizes.
- NEC-style options usually allow early contractor involvement, enabling earlier geotechnical scoping and constructability input.
- Councils and NHS clients can batch highways, structures and enabling works into programmes, smoothing annual spend profiles.
- Long-run frameworks allow contractors to standardise temporary works designs and traffic management layouts across multiple sites.
- Supply chains for ground investigation, piling, ground improvement and drainage can be pre-aligned to framework call-off patterns.
Our Take
AtkinsRéalis has recently secured places on six of the seven lots in Transport for London’s PSF3 framework, so its inclusion on Pagabo’s 2026 national civil engineering framework signals a deliberate push to lock in multi-year pipeline across both local and national UK infrastructure clients.
In our infrastructure coverage, AtkinsRéalis appears frequently in technically advanced roles (e.g. immersive visualisation at Sellafield’s RAICo1), suggesting that framework appointments like this one may increasingly reward bidders that can pair traditional civils delivery with digital design and remote-operations capability.
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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