Leicester Miller Education Company (LMEC) is a partnership that has been set up to design and deliver the new BSF schools and to manage their ICT and services such as cleaning and caretaking. The partnership is called The Leicester Miller Education Company and is led by Leicester City Council.
It brings together Leicester City Council with:
Partnerships for Schools, the government's delivery agency for BSF
Miller Construction
Northgate Information Solutions (ICT providers)
GSL (facilities and management)
Partnerships for Schools
http://www.partnershipsforschools.org.uk/
Partnerships for Schools (PfS) was established in 2004 by the DCSF (now Department for Education - DfE) and Partnerships UK to deliver Building Schools for the Future.
The key role for PfS is to ensure that investment in secondary schools is based on robust educational strategies and that BSF schools are well designed, are built on time at a reasonable cost to the taxpayer, and are properly maintained over their lifetime.
PfS helps to build strong Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), enabling the public sector to benefit from the best skills and expertise available in the private sector and reaping greater efficiencies and economies of scale.
PfS manages the overall national BSF programme, as well as supporting the local projects.
Miller Construction
http://www.miller.co.uk/
Miller Construction (UK) Ltd is part of The Miller Group which is the UK's largest privately owned housebuilding, property development and construction business.
Miller Construction is one of the UK's largest construction companies with an annual turnover of more than £500m and a high quality team of around 577 people.
As part of the £1.3b Miller Group, Miller Construction is able to bring the expertise of the other Miller divisions.
Northgate Education
www.northgate-is.com/education
Northgate Information Solutions is a market leader in providing specialist software, outsourcing and information technology (IT) services to the global human resources and UK local government, education and public safety markets.
Northgate Education, Northgate’s specialist Education division, is a leading provider of managed services and solutions in the UK. It provides technology services to over 1,200 schools, with more than 350,000 teachers and learners successfully supported by the company. Northgate provides services to every school in Northern Ireland through C2k, the largest and most comprehensive e-learning initiative ever implemented in the UK. It also provides Information and Communication Technology (ICT) managed services to Leicester as part BSF and to over 150 education sites in Hartlepool, from primary schools through to further education. In January 2007, Northgate was awarded an ISO 20000-1 accreditation by the British Standards Institution, for provision of IT service management activities.
G4S
www.g4s.uk.com
G4S provides innovative and cost-effective solutions for the management of support structures.
It provides and manages people, premises and equipment to support the efficient delivery of front line services for government bodies that include health authorities, education departments, the justice services and indeed many other agencies throughout the public sector.
G4S people ensure the whole life operability of facilities across the UK and their preventative maintenance regimes are supported by dedicated helpdesk staff who provide round the clock rapid response call out services to resolve problems. The integrated service teams include experienced facilities managers who are fully supported by qualified engineers, tradesmen, catering staff, laundry workers, groundsmen, housekeepers, premises managers, porters, mail room personnel, cleaners and domestic assistants.
