A consortium that is made up of Kier Project Investment, Equitix Holdings, Galliford Try Investments and John Graham Holdings has been named as the preferred bidder for a new infrastructure hub in south-west Scotland.
The consortium, which operates under the name of the Alliance Community Partnerships, beat rival consortiums Triach, which consists of Laing O'Rourke, Hochtief Concessions, Dawn Group and Currie Brown UK, and the WMS Partnership, which is made up of Morgan Sindall, Apollo Capital Projects, Community Solutions Investment Partners, Miller and Cyril Sweett.
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