3ED is a single purpose company whose shareholders are Bank of Scotland, John Laing plc and Trillium PPP Investment Partners.

3ED delivers the Glasgow Schools Project on behalf of Glasgow City Council. Our key purpose is to create and maintain a first class secondary school estate in Glasgow. Serving Glasgow’s 29 secondary schools and a pupil population of 30,000, 3ED’s focus is to give pupils and teachers the best possible resources and facilities for work and play by providing a first class learning and teaching environment. We are committed to delivering an excellent service to Glasgow City Council and every school.

Our Role
Our initial responsibility was to design, build and refurbish Glasgow’s secondary school estate. With the construction phase substantially completed by 2002, our role has developed into the operational phase, which, with the overall outcome to make buildings safe and available for school use, includes the provision of a 24/7 facilities management service, and maintenance and upgrading of ICT equipment. We also provide the Energy requirements (Electricity and Gas) to all of the schools.

History
3ED was established in 1998 to bid for the Glasgow Secondary Schools Project – Project 2002 and was awarded the contract by Glasgow City Council in 2000. Project 2002 is still the biggest education public private partnership (PPP) project in the UK.

Finance
3ED’s initial investment was £225m to build or refurbish each school. In addition £15m was invested in the initial provision of up to the minute ICT equipment. Glasgow City Council pays approximately £41m per year for 3ED’s services on the basis that we meet stringent performance targets, over the project’s 30 year life.

Subcontractors
Initial construction work is undertaken by the Amey Miller Construction Joint Venture (a 50:50 partnership between Amey Construction and Miller Construction), who are also responsible for the long term lifecycle replacement of these assets. Amey BPO Services Ltd delivers facilities management services which includes buildings and grounds maintenance, energy management, janitorial, cleaning and security services.Mitel (with support from Hewlett Packard) provides and maintains the ICT in each school.