Contract Award - London Fire Brigade Training

RNS Number : 7935S

Babcock International Group PLC

25 November 2011

 



25 November 2011

Babcock International Group PLC

Contract Award - London Fire Brigade Training

Babcock International Group PLC (Babcock, the Group) today announces that it has been selected by the London Fire Brigade (LFB) as the preferred bidder for its new, 25 year training contract.  Following the LFB's announcement, there will be a mandatory 10 day standstill period before the process can continue to final contract award.  The contract is expected to become operational on 1 April 2012. 

Over the 25 year period, the contract is expected to be worth in the order of £500 million.  Babcock will be working with the London Fire Brigade, the UK's largest fire and rescue service, to develop and deliver enhanced training programmes and new, world-class training facilities.  Over 200 courses will be delivered at the two new dedicated training facilities in Park Royal, North West London and Becton, East London, as well as at ten regional training facilities and locally, on all stations, through Babcock's computer based training systems.

Peter Rogers, Chief Executive of Babcock, commented:

"We are delighted to have been chosen as preferred bidder for this contract, which reflects our ability to provide market-leading and critical training support.    We look forward to working in partnership with the London Fire Brigade, supporting their delivery of vital services to make London a safer city and their vision to be a world-class fire and rescue service." 

Enquiries

Babcock International Group PLC

Peter Rogers, Chief Executive                                                  Tel: [phone]
Bill Tame, Finance Director
Terri Wright, Head of Investor Relations

FTI Consulting

Andrew Lorenz                                                                        Tel: [phone]
Nick Hasell

Notes to Editors

Babcock International Group PLC

Babcock is the UK's leading engineering support services company with revenue of £2.9 billion in 2011 and an order book of around £12 billion.

Babcock is the largest private sector provider of vocational training in the UK. We help thousands of organisations to get the best out of their people, by developing and delivering a broad range of tailored training programmes for the private and public sector.  Organisations, ranging from the military to the emergency services and from local authorities to commercial organisations, trust us to deliver their training needs. In return they receive a world-class solution that saves them money.

As well as delivering training solutions, Babcock delivers critical support to civil and military customers across many other sectors, including infrastructure, energy, defence, vehicle fleets and telecommunications. We take great pride in the considerable depth and breadth of our people's expertise. Our 27,000 skilled staff design, build, manage, operate and maintain assets that are vital to the delivery of many key public services, both in the UK and overseas.

Our market-leading reputation is based on one key fact: Babcock is a partner that can be trusted to deliver™ (www.babcock.co.uk).

 

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