Contract award
Morrison Construction takes the Plockton High School roof replacement
By Staff Writer | 06-09-2026
The Highland Council has recorded an award to Galliford Try Construction Limited, trading as Morrison Construction, for replacement of the metal roof sheeting at Plockton High School. The contract was signed on 31 August 2026 at 269,166.45 pounds excluding value added tax. The lot is described on the notice as a direct award through a framework and one bid is recorded.
A roof over four parts of one school
Replace the metal roof sheeting over the Changing Rooms, Plant Room, Toilets and nearby Classrooms
The Highland Council, contract award notice
The scope on the record is one sentence long and it names four areas of the building rather than a roof area in square metres. Changing rooms, a plant room and toilets are wet or serviced spaces, and classrooms next to them are in daily use, so the four areas named do not share a single set of access or occupation conditions. The notice gives no phasing, no possession arrangement and no requirement about term time working.
Nothing on the release records why the sheeting is being replaced, whether the covering alone is coming off or the supporting structure with it, or what is happening to the insulation, the rooflights and the rainwater goods that normally travel with a sheeted roof. The classification attached to the lot is building construction work. The main category is works.
The award value of 269,166.45 pounds excluding value added tax is recorded twice on the notice, once as the total value of the procurement and once as the total value of the contract. There is no separate pre tender estimate on the release, so the figure cannot be read against a budget the council set.
One bid, and a route the notice does not explain
The bid statistics for the single lot record one bid received, one from a small or medium sized enterprise, none from within the European Union and one submitted electronically. A single bid is what the record shows and the notice offers no comment on it.
The lot description names the route.
Direct award via SPA Framework PB3.
The Highland Council, contract award notice, lot description
That sits alongside a procurement method recorded elsewhere on the same release as the open procedure. The notice does not reconcile the two, and this report does not attempt to. What can be said from the record is that the council describes the lot as a direct award through an existing framework arrangement, that one bid was received, and that the framework itself is named only by that short reference.
A direct award under a framework moves the competition backwards in time, to the point at which the framework was let, and the terms that govern the works are the framework's terms as called off. None of those terms is published on this notice, so the conditions of contract, the pricing mechanism and the change procedure for this roof are not on the public record.
The parties, the dates and what is not recorded
The successful tenderer is recorded as Galliford Try Construction Limited trading as Morrison Construction, at Rowan House, Robroyston Oval, Glasgow. The award reference on the release is DIP26030 and it serves as both the award identifier and the contract identifier.
The contract was signed on 31 August 2026 and the award notice reached the register on 3 September 2026, three days later. No start date on site, no completion date and no contract period appear anywhere on the release.
The record carries no delivery location beyond the school named in the scope, no place of performance description and no site address. For a contractor pricing similar work, the absence of a programme matters more than the absence of an address: it leaves the season in which the sheeting comes off, and therefore the temporary weatherproofing the job needs, outside the published record entirely.