Accountant Mazars to oversee administration of 拢41m-turnover contractor
Ocon Construction has appointed insolvency professional Mazars as its administrator after announcing its intention to enter administration last week.
In a statement Opal Property Group, the parent company of Ocon Construction, said it had had to put its subsidiary into administration because of 鈥渙perational issues on the main university contracts it was fulfilling鈥�.
Tim Askham and Robert Adamson, both of accountancy firm Mazars, as have been appointed as joint administrators.
Mazars said: 鈥淭he board [of Ocon Construction] conducted an urgent review of its financial position during February, following trading losses in the previous year, continuing losses on current contracts and difficulties in procuring new contracts.
鈥淭he review identified the funds needed for Ocon to be able to complete its contracts but they could not be obtained via its parent, Opal Group, which was unable to support the plan.鈥�
Work on the firm鈥檚 projects ceased last week and it is currently engaged in redundancy consultations with its 50 staff.
Mazars added: 鈥淭he administrators are now urgently engaging with clients and contractors to ensure an orderly hand over of current works so that buildings can nevertheless be completed to schedule.鈥�
Ocon recorded a 拢1.4m pre-tax loss in its last full year results to 30 September 2012, which it attributed to 鈥渢he cost of recovering project delays, to ensure delivery dates were achieved, compounded by the insolvency of key subcontractors at critical times鈥�.
The previous year it made a 拢2.8m pre-tax profit. Ocon鈥檚 turnover also fell 22% to 拢41.2m, down from 拢55m.
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