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Highways England launches a £2bn tunnel construction tender for Lower Thames Crossing project
Highways England has announced on its website that they will be launching today (11/11/2020) a tender for the construction of the 2 bored tunnels each with a length of 2.6 miles (4.2 km). The £2bn tender will be launched by Lower Thames Crossing executive director Matt Palmer.
Highway England says " The Lower Thames Crossing will improve journeys by almost doubling road capacity across the Thames east of London with 14.3 miles of new road featuring two 2.6 mile-long tunnels. Works on the project could start in about 18 months and would provide a huge jobs boost to the UK infrastructure industry" adding that " At 16 metres wide, these tunnels will be some of the largest bored tunnels in the world. They will also be the longest road tunnels in the UK".
Highway England gives the following information about the package:
About the Tunnels and Approaches package
- A bespoke NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC) form of contract will be used for this package
- The contract notice will be sent for publication in the European Journal 11th November with an anticipated publication date of 13th November
- Bidders will be asked to return a selection questionnaire before the end of the year. We expect three applicants to be shortlisted to move forward into the competitive dialogue stage, with the contract award anticipated in 2022
- The tender process will be undertaken via Bravo (eSourcing platform) and Highways England ask that interested parties register here
- The details of the Bravo project to be used will be released in the tender notice
image (The route of Highways England's Lower Thames Crossing) is from: ClemRutter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
New Civil Engineer writes that "Lower Thames Crossing executive director Matt Palmer will announce the start of procurement on the design and build contract later today (Nov 11) at NCE’s Future of Transport conference"
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cover tunnel photo by: Matt Brown from London, England / CC BY
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