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Empowering your Infrastructure Projects with Gold Standard Utilities Frameworks
For any infrastructure project, delivering low carbon solutions that meet sustainability targets, stay within budget, and are completed on time is crucial. But where do you start?
Our Gold Standard Accredited SCAPE Utilities frameworks are designed to guide you through every phase of your infrastructure projects. We're here to save you time, increase efficiency, and maximise value for money.
Read on to discover how our team of experts can help you overcome project management challenges to deliver successful projects for your community.
Compliant, accelerated procurement - immediate access to the right resource for your project
Using our compliant Utilities framework means you can save time on the lengthy tendering processes as our suppliers are pre-approved for your project demands so you can deliver projects on time at ease.
Each partner on our Utilities framework has been specifically chosen as they can evidence their past achievements and have consistently demonstrated that best practice and innovation are embedded within their operations, policies, and processes to deliver projects that achieve enhanced community outcomes.
Our Utilities framework partners include:
Consultancy Partners:
- AtkinsRealis - providing solutions for England, Wales and Northern Ireland
- Perfect Circle - providing solutions for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland
- Arcadis - providing solutions for Scotland.
- Kier - providing solutions for England, Wales and Northern Ireland
- McLaughlin & Harvey - providing solutions for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland
- RJ McLeod - providing solutions for Scotland in Work and Services Partners




Frameworks to help you plan and deliver projects and programmes
With unmatched sector expertise, our delivery partners can seamlessly supplement your existing delivery resource or jump start a delayed or resource locked project.
The SCAPE Utilities frameworks are designed to empower utility sector organisations to shape their projects and programmes through an accelerated delivery, competitively tendered model.
We offer two compliant frameworks that can support you with access to specialist consultants capable of helping you deliver the low carbon energy, transport and water infrastructure needed to meet sustainability targets and serve community needs in the years ahead. Our frameworks include:
- Utilities Consultancy framework - designed to offer you access to a suite of professional services including strategic advice, engineering services, design services, project management and quantity surveying.
- Utilities Works & Services framework - designed to empower utility sector organisations to accelerate their civil engineering and construction programmes and projects.
We deliver services across the following sectors:
Docks, ports and harbours
Rail and metro
Aviation
Water
Renewables
Energy
Telecommunications
Start effectively managing your projects to optimise performance
Our framework provides solutions to minimise risk, manage your project and unlocks opportunities so you can enhance project performance.
We will work with you collaboratively to regularly monitor your project, giving you updates to minimise project risks and optimise delivery during every step of the process.
Our team give you instant access to a range of framework documents that are essential to effectively managing your infrastructure project. As soon as you start using our Utilities framework, you'll have access to a mobilisation plan, guidance notes, framework templates and a dedicated team to support you throughout all project stages.
We know it's vital to stay on top of risk management when delivering a project in the utilities sector, that's why we provide you with everything you need to optimise project performance.
Our team de-risks your projects by giving you:
- Regular reports over performance management
- Maintaining achievement reports
- Reviewing and managing your risk register
- Conducting review statements to assess project finances
- Reviewing legal requirements
- Providing value for money evidence
- Delivering health and safety reports
Every SCAPE Framework is Gold Standard Verified
The Gold Standard verification is an independent, central government backed scheme designed to ensure public sector procurement delivers value to the public sector.
With our Gold Standard Utilities framework, you can access:
- Compliant, accelerated procurement route
- Better, safer, faster, and greener outcomes
- Net zero carbon and social value targets
- Improved safety
- Enhanced efficiency and innovation
- Increased contributions from SME

Why work with SCAPE
Start your utilities project with us today
Our expert team is ready to help you plan and deliver infrastructure projects for the utilities sector.
Contact us now to schedule a meeting and discover how our frameworks can save you time, enhance efficiency, and deliver value for money.