Inserts For Tunnel Segments – Short Deadline

Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: INSERTS FOR TUNNEL SEGMENTS – SHORT DEADLINE
2. Awarding Authority: ALIGN JV (Bouygues Travaux Publics, VolkerFitzpatrick and Sir Robert McAlpine), GB. Web: www.alignjv.com
3. Contract type: Supply contract
4. Description: About the Opportunity:
Supply and delivery of various inserts required for the Precast Tunnel Segments (inserts; Connection dowels, guiding rods, shear cones, grout hole sockets, sockets for temporary brackets), providing a 120year design life and in compliance with the design standards required under the Main Contract works information. There are approximately 16,000 precast rings – each requiring c.87 inserts (14 connection dowels, 14 guiding rods, 28 shear cones, 7 grout hole sockets and 24 sockets for temporary brackets) Each tunnel ring comprises of 7 separate segments. Selection of our supply chain is anticipated to be carried out over the next 2-3 months, however deliveries are not likely to be required until Spring 2020. Deliveries are to be aligned to the production dates for the precast segments.
5. CPV Code(s): 43123000, 43614000
6. NUTS code(s): UKG, UKG3, UKG31, UKI
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: HS2 C1 Section
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Not provided.
9. Estimated value of requirement: Estimated contract value (GBP) J: GBP 1m to 2.5m
10. CompeteFor response deadline 12.4.2019 (18:00:00).
11. Address to which they must be sent: Note: This is a CompeteFor opportunity. Opportunities may be with both public and private sector businesses. To apply, please click the following link to register on the CompeteFor portal Web:
12. Other information: Opportunity Method Contract Opportunity
Opportunity Status Open
Opportunity Type Public Sector
Nature of Opportunity Goods
About the buyer’s selection process:
The package will be competitively tendered and assessed against a split between commercial (price) and defined technical criteria – Split to be confirmed, however it is anticipated that a significant weighting will be allocated to both elements of the tender
About the buyer:
In July 2017, ALIGN (Bouygues Travaux Publics, Sir Robert McAlpine and Volker Fitzpatrick)won the significant C1 package of the UK High Speed 2 line (HS2). Lot C1 consists of 21.6km of high speed rail infrastructure in a rural environment. This will include a 3.37km viaduct, 15.75km twin-tubes tunnel and five vent shafts handling both piston effect and tunnel ventilation.
Estimated tender close date 26/04/2019
Estimated contract award date 03/06/2019
Estimated contract start date 02/03/2020
TKR-201945-EX-1024862