28 April 2016 | Herpreet Kaur Grewal

Edinburgh City Council has awarded a contract to inspect the city’s walls to Amey – despite the provider being a part of the consortium responsible for safety issues at 17 of the city’s schools. 

Gordon Allan, Amey’s business director for consulting in Scotland said: “As an approved supplier to the Scottish Excel Framework [a procurement organisation dedicated to serve all local authorities and related organisations across Scotland], Amey was invited to tender for this contract and was named preferred bidder after a competitive bidding process.”

Under the contract Amey will be “drawing on our consultancy expertise to catalogue the location and condition of retaining walls throughout Edinburgh so that the council’s maintenance team can develop a formal inspection and proactive maintenance schedule”. 

Councillor Alasdair Rankin, convener of the finance and resources committee, which made the award, said Amey has been “vetted as an ‘approved’ company to bid for the work”.