What the buyer wrote
The contract is to design and construct two highway tunnels beneath the River Thames and will be procured under the Competitive Dialogue Procedure. The contract will be based on the NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC) form of contract. The scope includes the portal buildings, approach roads, the tunnel controls systems (MEICA) and a five year landscape maintenance and aftercare contract. At circa 16 metres in diameter, these tunnels will be some of the largest bored tunnels in the world. Each tunnel will feature a three-lane carriage way. Each tunnel will be circa 4km in length. The contract also includes portal structures and approximately 1km of approach roads from each portal…
Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Lower Thames Crossing - Tunnels and Approaches
- How they are buying
- Advertised, then negotiatedThe buyer talked terms with bidders rather than taking fixed offers.
- Type
- works
- Work starts
- 11 May 2022
- Work ends
- 31 Dec 2027
- Kind of work
- Construction
Who the buyer named
The buyer published a contact address on this notice.