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West Midlands Combined Authority

Bilston and Crescent Rail Replacement

TransportCPV 60200000 71300000
Value£350k
Awarded8 Jun 2021
Published14 Jan 2022
RegionWest Midlands
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£350ktotal contract value
median £64k
this tender£0£2.2m

This is a large award for Transport Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,160 valued Transport Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Midland Metro runs from Wolverhampton to Birmingham city centre along 21km with 18km of segregated track.

There are two areas of rail replacement to be undertaken on the system in the vicinity of the Crescent and Bilston central tram stops, the rail replacement in both areas requires the removal and replacement of the rail within the tram stop area 28 rails at the Crescent and 16 rails at Bilston.

The tram stops are constructed on a concrete pad, the track is standard flat bottom 80lb rail R260 type 39E1 18.2 meters per rail length, fixed to concrete mono block sleepers embedded into the primary concrete.

The rail sits on rubber pads fixed with pandrol e-clips with nylons against the rail.

The rail sits in a protective sleeve with an artificial keep formed from concrete blocks with standard block paving installed across stop area.

This opportunity is available via Bravo Solutions and will close on Tuesday 8th June 2021 at 12 noon.

Further details of what is required and relating appendices are detailed in the full Invitation to Tender pack.

Access to these tender documents can be found on Bravo Solutions and interested suppliers must register to this site to gain access, registration is free.

The link to Bravo Solutions website is as follows:- https://wmca.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html Please note: • Site visits will take place over two consecutive days on: Tuesday 25th May 2021 and Wednesday 26th May 2021 with an 08:00 start and a 12:00 finish. • Suppliers only need to attend one of the site visits (either Tuesday 25th May 2021 or Wednesday 26th May 2021). • Appointments for site visits must be made by the supplier communicating their required date by using the Bravo Solution messaging function.

Full details regarding the site visit and access to the relating tender can be found via Bravo solutions. https://wmca.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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Access to these tender documents can

Access to these tender documents can be found on Bravo Solutions and interested suppliers must register to this site to gain access, registration is free.

02

Suppliers only need to attend one

Suppliers only need to attend one of the site visits (either Tuesday 25th May 2021 or Wednesday 26th May 2021).

03

Appointments for site visits must be made

Appointments for site visits must be made by the supplier communicating their required date by using the Bravo Solution messaging function.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
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