STRUCTURE: North Tees and Hartlepool Hospitals Foundation Trust has named three bidders who will compete to win the job of building the trust’s new hospital.

The three firms are Brookfield Multiplex Europe, Iridium Concesiones de Infraestructuras and Laing O’Rourke.

Lead director for the new hospital project Kevin Oxley said: “We had many people at the bidder open day in October and 10 organisations submitted pre-qualification questionnaires to be shortlisted for the next stage. We had a number of strong submissions of which Brookfield, Iridium and Laing O’Rourke offered the best technical and financial standing.”