The high speed rail route promoter wants to benefit from potential suppliers’ technical expertise and experience of similar projects.
The promoters want to talk to firms involved in enabling works, building tunnels, stations and surface work rail route to gauge the best procurement route, size of work packages and best approach to capturing industry innovation.
It also aims to talks to system integrators and firms offering design services for the project.
(See below for signing up details).
More than half the first phase route will be in cuttings or tunnels, raising the scale of the civil engineering challenge. It will require around 100 bridges and viaducts and four new stations.
The project is programmed to start at the turn of 2016/17 and take around nine and half years to deliver at a total targeted cost of £17.16bn including rolling stock.
Packages
- Tunnels (£2.9bn): 4 main packages of work
- Surface Route (2.7bn): 3 to 6 main packages of work
- Stations (2.6bn): 4 main packages (one main per station). Also option of combining the Birmingham stations and splitting Euston into several packages.
- Enabling Works (£600m): New framework agreement with several ‘Lots’ for different work types and locations
- Railway Systems (1.5bn): 4 to 6 route-wide packages
- Design Services (£350m): Multi-disciplinary packages to progress design to a level appropriate to the contracting strategy and provide on-going Employer’s agent duties as required
- Rolling Stock, Depots and Signalling (2bn+) Single package, with location of depots to be established by HS2 Ltd.
HS2 said the market engagement exercise would initially take the form of a broad survey of interested firms, leading to feedback days and one-to-one meetings with selected firms.
Market engagement sign-up process
Browse to the eSourcing Portal: https://hs2.bravosolution.co.uk and click the ‘Register Now!’ link
Review and accept the terms and conditions and click ‘Next’
Enter business and user details – Note down the username choosen
Click ‘Save’ to proceed to the market engagement survey
Before completing the survey, download and review the supporting ‘Market Information Document’ by following the hyperlink at the top of the survey
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