PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs Engineering Group
Inc. (NYSE: JEC) announced today that it was awarded a four-year
contract from the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) for a
multi-disciplinary framework panel. The HCA is the national housing
and regeneration agency for England. Its role is to create
thriving communities and affordable homes.
Officials did not disclose the contract value, however indicated
that in the past two and a half years over 100 million pounds of
work has been procured by the HCA and its partners through the
multi-disciplinary and related panels.
The HCA maintains a number of panels to deliver its regeneration
and development programs. At present, over 180 partner
organizations procure
through the HCA's panels. The panels cover a
wide range of services including property, project cost and
management, master-planning, engineering, planning architecture,
housing delivery and transport together with a range of niche
specialist panels such as archaeology, heritage and
surveying. The multi-disciplinary panel provides access to a
range of technical services as a 'one stop shop' and make it
"quicker and more cost effective for publicly funded organizations
to procure technical services".
In making the announcement, Group Vice President Bob Duff stated, "Jacobs is proud to work with
the HCA and support their efforts to improve communities in
England."
Jacobs is one of the world's largest and most diverse providers
of technical, professional, and construction services.
Any statements made in this release that are not based on
historical fact are forward-looking
statements. Although such statements are based on
management's current estimates and expectations, and currently
available competitive, financial, and economic data,
forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain. We,
therefore, caution the reader that there are a variety of factors
that could cause business conditions and results to differ
materially from what is contained in our forward-looking
statements. For a description of some of the factors which
may occur that could cause actual results to differ from our
forward-looking statements please refer to our 2009 Form 10-K, and
in particular the discussions contained under Items 1 - Business,
1A - Risk Factors, 3 - Legal Proceedings, and 7 - Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations. We also caution the readers of this release that
we do not undertake to update any forward-looking statements made
herein.
For additional information
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