Jarvis has in recent months signed six new PFI projects worth, in whole life terms, £230m.

Five of the projects are schools, throughout the country. Included in the five is Balfron High School at Stirling, the first single school to be delivered in Scotland under PFI. Balfron will accommodate 940 pupils from August next year. Jarvis will provide building and life cycle maintenance, grounds maintenance, catering, cleaning and security services for 25 years after completion of the new school. Total development cost is £18m and whole life value is £50m.

Other schools include St Ninian’s High School in East Renfrewshire, where Jarvis will operate the completed premises for 25 years providing premises management, building and life cycle maintenance, grounds maintenance, catering, cleaning and security services. The whole life value of the contract is £54m. Jarvis will also be providing services at Debden Park High School in Essex, Hampden Gurney Church of England School in Westminster and Homelands Primary School, and Westlands Bilateral Secondary School in Torbay.

In addition to the school contracts, Jarvis is relocating six separate offices to a single site in Chippenham for North Wiltshire District Council. The company will provide on-going services for 25 years starting in January 2002. The whole life value of the contract is £39m.

Commenting on the contract wins, Henry Lafferty, Chief Executive of Jarvis Accommodation Services said: "These projects further underline Jarvis' position as the UK leading education PFI specialist. We have a high success rate in tendering for these projects, which makes us the clear market leader."

Anna Lagerkvist