Five South West construction firms are among those to have secured multi-million pound building lots on a £4.5bn public sector procurement framework.
A total of 20 contractors have been awarded a place on the Southern Construction Framework (SCF), which supports public bodies with projects across the education, health, local authority, leisure sectors.
In the South West a dozen companies have been appointed to lots worth more than £4m, while 10 have won lots valued at between £1m to £5m.