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HS2

Overhead Catenary System for HS2 Ltd

Transport EquipmentCPV 34000000 34900000 45000000 45200000 45230000 45232000 45234000 71000000 71300000
Value£206.9m
Deadline24 Oct 2023
Published6 Feb 2025
RegionUK-wide
Timeline
Published 6 Feb 2025ClosedCloses 24 Oct 2023
Contract value in context
£206.9mtotal contract value
median £102k
this tender£0£223.5m

This is a large award for Transport Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 15,368 valued Transport Equipment tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

High Speed Two (HS2) Limited ('HS2 Ltd') is the body responsible for developing and promoting the new high speed railway system known as High Speed Two (HS2).

HS2 will initially run between London and Birmingham (Phase 1).

The Railway Systems tranche of work incorporates a number of critical disciplines for the HS2 Project, including without limitation the design, construction, commissioning and testing of track, overhead catenary, lineside M & E & tunnels, power, signalling and communications.

This procurement relates to Overhead Catenary Systems (OCS), for which HS2 Ltd procured the design, manufacture, supply, installation, testing and commissioning.

The Overhead Catenary Systems covers 469 single track kms, including 250 bridges, 58 viaducts, 47 underbridges, 148 overbridges and 115 culverts.

Six passing / maintenance loops/sidings and four complex track junctions.

131 point ends, including 99 high-speed turnouts (between 130km/h and 230 km/h), 32 low-medium speed turnouts (up to and including 100km/h), 5 traps or diamonds.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

High Speed Two (HS2) Limited ('HS2 Ltd')

High Speed Two (HS2) Limited ('HS2 Ltd') is the body responsible for developing and promoting the new high speed railway system known as High Speed Two (HS2).

02

This procurement relates to Overhead Catenary Systems

This procurement relates to Overhead Catenary Systems (OCS), for which HS2 Ltd procured the design, manufacture, supply, installation, testing and commissioning.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
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