Sisk and Macquarie win bid for PPP social housing tender worth €300m

Sisk and its joint venture partner Macquarie have won the bid for the first major public private partnership social housing tender.

Worth €300 million, this is the first large-scale contract awarded since the disastrous Bernard McNamara public private partnership collapsed under the weight of the property crash in 2008.

The Comhar consortium, made up of Macquarie as the funder and Sisk as the builder, with the Choice Housing and Oaklee trusts, beat two ...