The advisers have been selected for the Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation Estates Management Professional Services Contract, or ESPO, one of the UK's most lucrative public sector real estate framework contracts.
The framework contract is valued at £60 million, with the award following similar appointments on the larger framework tenders for Homes England and the Crown Commercial Service.
The framework period is 21 April 2026 to 20 April 2028 with an option to extend for a further two years. The contract creates a multiple supplier framework for estates management professional services across the estate.
ESPO is a buying organisation jointly owned by six county councils, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Peterborough and Warwickshire, and operated through Leicestershire County Council.
The framework's structure focuses on assets across the country. It will be based on the government's nine defined regions of England but companies have also been appointed to offer services for use by public sector bodies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The tender has eight lots: Lot 1, valuation; Lot 2, agency split between commercial and agricultural agency; Lot 3, lease management; Lot 4, property and estate management; Lot 5, strategic asset management and development consultancy; Lot 6, compulsory purchase and compensation; Lot 7, workplace and workspace management; Lot 8, planning consultancy.
The selected companies are: Align Property Partners, APB (Leicester); Ardent Management; Aspbury Planning; Aspire Development Management; aspireCP/TerraQuest; Axis Property Consultancy; Beyond Collaboration; Bruton Knowles; BTG Eddisons (Eddisons Commercial); Carter Jonas; CBRE; Childs and Sulzmann; Cluttons; Colliers International Property Advisers UK; Coreus Projects; Covest Architecture; Cushman & Wakefield; Dalcour Maclaren; Foundry Asset Management; FPCR Environment and Design; Frankham Consultancy Group; Gateley Hamer; Gleeds; Hartnell Taylor Cook; Iceni Projects; Ingleton Wood; Inner Circle Consulting; Insight Consulting Services; Knight Frank; Lambert Smith Hampton; Land Use Consultants; Langtree Property Partners; Leadenhall Project Management; Macro Group; Maintenance Management; Montagu Evans; Neo Environmental; Newmark; Norse Group Services; Oxhey Hall Consulting; P2G Contract Support; Pegasus Group; Planning & Design Practice; Rapleys; Red Loft; RFL Property Services; Ridge and Partners; Roger Hannah & Co; Rolfe Judd Planning; Sable Leigh Property (trading as SLC Property); Sanderson Weatherall; Savills (UK); Sewell Advisory; The Environment Partnership; Thomas Lister; Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design; Union4 Planning; Valuation Office Agency; Vercity Management Services; Vickery Holman; Wilks Head & Eve; and WSP UK.
A handful of the companies have been appointed to all of the lots including Hartnell Taylor Cook.
Kate Flaherty, director of bids and public sector at Hartnell Taylor Cook said in a statement: "This is such a fantastic opportunity, and I am incredibly proud that we have been awarded onto another critical public sector framework, especially across such a wide variety of lots."
Jonathan Marwood, partner, added: “With public sector work a core part of our business and long-term growth strategy, this is another positive step forward as we look to further cement our relationship as a supplier with current and future clients.”