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Company description
EQUANS SPECIALIST CONTRACTING UK LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 16 March 1984; registered for 42 years; registered office reported in MOTHERWELL, SCOTLAND. Its primary declared activity is 43999 · Other specialised construction activities n.e.c..
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01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- EQUANS SPECIALIST CONTRACTING UK LIMITED
- Company number
- SC087174
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 1 total · 0 outstanding · 1 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
18 January 2026Next statement due
1 February 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 47.3%
- Mean bonus gap
- 53.7%
- Women receiving bonus
- 86.4%
- Men receiving bonus
- 77.2%
- Women in top quartile
- 5.6%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 12.7%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 16.9%
- Women in lower quartile
- 26.4%
Earlier reporting years (6)
- 250 to 49936.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49927.7% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49922.6% median hourly gap
- Less than 25024.9% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49935.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49938.8% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 31 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- Reported as used
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £31,907,222
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £42,107,104
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £4,318,065
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £16,726,736
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 56.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Retention circumstances
Equans Sci Tech's governance hold a template Subcontract form which by default shows 0 retention but it is a common practice that we apply a 5% retention by default, in line with our own retention applied by our clients.
Should the subcontractor come back we may negotiate a lower retention of 3%.
However, we have been implementing a new process in the past 2 years whereby we aim to obtain performance bond instead of retention for all contracts above 2M.
Retention parity policy
Several forms of performance security exist :
1- Retention Bond
2- Performance Bond
3- Defect liability bond
4- Parent company guarantees
etc...
The main factor that explains the gap between what we withhold from our supply chain vs what we are withheld ourselves by our client is the possible ways to hold money from one party.
2 out of our last 6 DC projects had retention applied to our Client Contracts, the 4 others had a performance bond instead.
In the meantime we still hold retention from most of our subcontractor though we have (as mention in Q1) initiated a transition to performance bond to replicate our client's methodology (for contracts above 2M).
Retention release
Our standard T&C for Retention :
The first retention release date is: *[ ] (unless otherwise stated it shall be after practical completion of the Sub-Contract Works)
The second retention release date is: *[ ] (unless otherwise stated it shall be 12 months after practical completion of the Sub-Contract Works)
Retention release stages
Our standard T&C for Retention :
The first retention release date is: *[ ] (unless otherwise stated it shall be after practical completion of the Sub-Contract Works)
The second retention release date is: *[ ] (unless otherwise stated it shall be 12 months after practical completion of the Sub-Contract Works)
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with client
- 184.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 4.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The statistical information provided includes payments to both suppliers and subcontractors. All invoices received require a valid purchase order number. Any invoice received without a valid purchase order number is returned unpaid with a request to resubmit the invoice with the required information.
- Dispute resolution process
The company is committed to fair dealing with all of its supply chain members, and transparency and swift resolution of disputed items are key principles in this process. The company has dedicated teams, based at a UK Group Shared Service Centre, for dealing with all supplier and subcontractor invoice processing, queries and statement reconciliations. Formal Dispute Resolution Processes are included as terms within many contractual agreements signed with suppliers and subcontractors. The company makes every effort to resolve disputes and queries in a timely manner and within agreed payment terms.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 43.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- EQUANS SPECIALIST CONTRACTING UK LIMITED
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 7 July 2026
- Sectors
- Construction, civil engineering and building products
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 16 July 2026
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06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Equans Group Uk Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- The Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 03151861
- Notified
- 28 December 2023
Bouygues Energies & Services S.A.S
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- France
- Legal authority
- French
- Legal form
- Limited
- Place registered
- Versailles, Paris
- Registration number
- 775 664 873
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 28 December 2023
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07 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
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08 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
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09 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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11 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
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12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
13 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
1 exact company-number registration.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
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14 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Company name
Previous name: BOUYGUES E&S CONTRACTING UK LIMITED
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: ETDE CONTRACTING LIMITED
- Company name
Previous name: THERMAL TRANSFER LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
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Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
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