Leeds LEP

Leeds BSF is delivered through the Local Education Partnership (LEP), which brings together Leeds City Council, Education Leeds, the government agency Partnerships for Schools, the private consortium Environments 4 Learning and its supply chain, including construction firm Interserve.

Despite being one of the largest projects in the country, the first phase of the Leeds BSF programme was one of the first to reach financial close and start work on-site.

The procurement process of Leeds BSF and other projects through the LEP, together with the council’s own efficient procurement of their BSF partner, and the LEP, have saved the local authority approximately £40 million.

This is one of the reasons it has been named the country's best operational LEP at the first ever Excellence in BSF awards.

Leeds City Council

Leeds City Council is the second largest metropolitan authority in the UK with a mission to ‘bring the benefits of a prosperous, vibrant and attractive city to all the people of Leeds.’ It serves around 750,000 people and is the city’s largest employer.

It is rated as a four star council by the Audit Commission – the highest possible grade – and is the only local authority to have received the government’s beacon status for its services every year since the awards were introduced to recognise excellent practice.

Leeds City Council’s pioneering, specialist Public Private Partnership Unit takes a strategic lead on partnership opportunities, and provides guidance and support to individual departments on major investment projects they wish to promote.

Education Leeds

Education Leeds is the not-for-profit company wholly owned by Leeds City Council, which runs frontline education services and offers strategic direction and support to the local authority – with the council setting education policy.

Environments for Learning (E4L)

E4L is a consortium of three leading organisations in the delivery of education services and projects. The consortium is made up of equity partners: Interserve, Mott MacDonald (including Cambridge Education - a market leader in delivering education support services to both LEA’s and the DfES), and Barclays Private Equity.

Advisors to the Environments for Learning Consortium include Watkins Gray (architects), Faulkner Brown & GHM Rock Townsend (mentor), Macquarie (finance), Ashurst (legal) and Sumitomo Bank (funding).

Partnerships for Schools

Partnerships for Schools (PfS) is the delivery agency for the government’s Building Schools for the Future and Academies programmes. PfS was established in April 2004 as a Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB), and is operated and funded under a joint venture between DfES and Partnerships UK.

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