Warwickshire County Council awards Interclass £16.5m to build Upper Lighthorne Primary School
A Two-Stage Design and Build Contract hands the contractor full design responsibility for a new primary school already reaching RIBA Stage 3.
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Warwickshire County Council has awarded INTERCLASS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY a £16,500,000 contract to design and build Upper Lighthorne Primary School, a 2FE school with facilitating works for a 3FE expansion. Gleeds stays on for project management, contract administration and cost management through RIBA Stages 3-7. The award followed an Open Procedure.
Warwickshire County Council has appointed INTERCLASS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY to deliver Upper Lighthorne Primary School under a £16,500,000 Two-Stage Design and Build Contract.
The scheme covers a 2FE (with facilitating works for a 3FE) Primary School. Under a Two-Stage Design and Build Contract, the contractor takes over design development after an initial procurement stage and carries the project through construction, rather than working to a design fully fixed by the client's own team.
The project reached RIBA Stage 3 under Pick Everard before passing to Gleeds. Gleeds will be retained for Project Management, Contract Administration and Cost Management across RIBA Stages 3-7, while all design activities move to the contractor. The procurement ran under the Open Procedure, in line with the Procurement Act.
The award notice was published on 2026-07-30T10:42:08Z, with an award date of 2026-07-29T23:00:00Z.
For firms in schools construction and design-and-build delivery, the notice confirms how the design responsibility has shifted from consultant to contractor at this stage. Subcontractors and design consultants looking to work on the project will need to approach INTERCLASS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY directly, as no further competition is signalled in the notice.