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Hull City Council's BSF team are absolutely delighted to announce that the council's Cabinet has approved the appointment of the selected bidder for the £400m BSF main programme.

The recommendation to Cabinet to approve the selected bidder followed a year-long procurement and selection process and four weeks of intense and thorough evaluation of final bids. The process and recommendation was unanimously endorsed by the BSF project board.

Cabinet approved the recommendation of the BSF project board that Esteem (Morgan Sindall Investments Ltd; Robertson's Capital Projects Ltd., and Sewell Group plc) - the bidder with the highest overall evaluation score - be appointed as the selected bidder for the BSF main programme.

A formal launch of Esteem's appointment was held on Wednesday 4 November at Winifred Holtby School Technology College.

Tim Byles, Chief Executive of Partnerships for Schools, the government agency responsible for managing the national BSF programme, said:

"This is an important milestone in Hull's BSF programme, which will transform 23 schools across Hull, and we congratulate Esteem on being appointed as the Selected Bidder. Reaching this point is excellent news for the young people, teachers and local communities across Hull.

"The new and improved buildings, facilities and technology will have an enormous impact on the education and life chances of every young person in the area. I look forward to seeing Hull's BSF project take shape and the difference it will make."

David Martin, BSF project director, said:

"The appointment of Esteem as our BSF Selected Bidder in Hull is a huge milestone for the project and a land-mark moment for the city and our aspirations to create a place and a future which is living, learning, working, healthy and proud. This comes after three years of dedicated work across the city's many partners, to set a strategy for change that is capable of truly transforming learning and opportunity across Hull, with a focus on a city-wide approach aimed at embracing and enhancing the needs of the individual learner, local communities and the city's social and economic infrastructure.

"We are absolutely delighted to welcome Esteem as our new partners and have every confidence in their very clear capabilities and commitment to help Hull realise its strategy, raise aspirations, deliver transformational partnering services and create new learning centres of exceptional design and build quality. They have shown a deep understanding of and personal motivation to Hull's ambitious plans to ensure that the physical renewal drives a new social and economic regeneration. As partners we are now set to make a real, tangible difference."

Cllr Rick Welton, portfolio holder for regeneration, said:

"I am so pleased to welcome Esteem and look forward to working with them to help provide the transformational change that the children and young people of this city so richly deserve. Hull is one of the largest BSF programmes nationally and the city will undoubtedly benefit from the opportunities it will bring to the whole community."

Paul Brooke, Esteem Project Director, said:

"Today's announcement that Esteem is the selected bidder for Hull's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme follows more than a year of hard work and rigorous assessment. Hull City Council put together an extremely challenging and thorough process that has, we believe, secured a very strong proposition for the City's schools and future generations of schoolchildren.

"We are very pleased that we have been selected to deliver this programme of work. We intend to make a positive difference, not only by building great community facilities, but by becoming an active part of community life. We will serve Hull's communities by delivering schools for which we can all be proud.

"Now the hard work really begins. The day that the first spade hits the ground is drawing ever closer and we will not rest until each and every facility is built by a local workforce who will all positively contribute towards improving education right across the city of Hull."

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