The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has today published a document which shows the extent of the business benefits created by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The ‘building for 2012’ map shows a snap-shot of around 1,500 companies spread across the UK that are providing goods and services to the ODA for the construction of the venues and infrastructure needed for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The map showing the spread of contracts can be viewed and downloaded from the London 2012 website:
http://www.london2012.com/news/publications/pdf/building-for-2012.pdfODA Chairman John Armitt said: 'Thousands of companies across the UK are winning contracts and helping to build the venues and infrastructure needed for the London 2012 Games.
'This map is a snapshot of how businesses are benefitting from the investment in the Games project. Its shows around 1,500 UK companies from Inverness to Taunton have already won contracts - a mere fraction of what will be the total number.'
Tessa Jowell, Olympics Minister,
said: 'This is an impressive snapshot of
the thousands of the Games-related contracts won by firms in the
UK and paints a picture of
the impact of London 2012 on the UK economy. From Inverness to
Taunton and Belfast to Bridgend, London 2012 is helping to keep order
books busy, proving that these really are the UK’s Games'
Examples of companies that have won contracts include:
- A Glasgow-based company that have provided protection equipment for scaffolding on the Aquatics Centre
- A company from County Antrim, Northern Ireland, who won a contract to provide parapet support structures for bridges across the Olympic Park
- A Merseyside business that are working on the roof cladding contract for the Aquatics Centre
- A County Durham company that won a contract for the cladding on the IBC/MPC
- A Sheffield business that has provided welding supplies for the Olympic Stadium
- A Nottingham-based company that has provided pumps for the sewer network and pumping station needed for the new venues and Park
- A security firm from Wolverhampton that has designed, manufactured and installed the perimeter fence for the site
- A Cardiff company that won a contract for the supply of reinforced concrete for bridges and roads across the Park
- A Taunton-based firm that is producing concrete terracing units for the Olympic Stadium
- A company from Feltham that has supplied lifts for the Velodrome
- A Thetford firm who won a contract to supply the wetland plants needed to create the parklands
- A company from Leyton, east London that have provided skips to the contractor working on the Aquatics Centre.
Two companies which have already benefited from working for the ODA on the design and planning of the Olympic Park, Atkins (engineering) and Populous (architects) have gone on to become London 2012 suppliers and are now working with the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) to stage the Games in 2012. LOCOG is beginning its Games-time procurement process this year, including the construction of temporary venues and buying over 900,000 pieces of sporting equipment.
Notes to Editors:
1. As it heads towards its £2bn budget for staging the Olympic and Paralympic Games, LOCOG has six domestic Tier One Partners - adidas, BP, British Airways, BT, EDF and Lloyds TSB. There are now six domestic Tier Two Supporters – Adecco, Cadbury, Cisco, Deloitte, Thomas Cook and UPS. There are eleven domestic Tier Three Suppliers and Providers – Airwave, Atkins, Boston Consulting Group, Crystal CG, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Holiday Inn, McCann Worldgroup, The Nielsen Company, Populous, Ticketmaster and Trident. The Worldwide Olympic Partners signed up for London 2012 are Coca-Cola, Acer, Atos Origin, GE, McDonald’s, Omega, Panasonic, Samsung and Visa.
For further information please contact the Olympic Delivery Authority Press Office on +44 (0)20 3 2012 700.
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The construction of the venues and infrastructure of the London 2012 Games is funded by the National Lottery through the Olympic Lottery Distributor, The Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Mayor of London and the London Development Agency.
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