Four bag HS2 design work
10 April 2012
Contracts have been awarded for preliminary design work on the High Speed Two (HS2) rail line.
Under Lot 1 of the Professional Services Framework covering civil and structural design work, the following firms have won work worth almost £50m.Mott Macdonald – £13.2m London Metropolitan Area contract for the design of approximately 25km of new high speed rail line from the redeveloped Euston station through North-West London. They will also work on the link to HS1 and a new 14 platform interchange station at Old Oak Common.
Atkins – £13.3m Country South contract covering the design of 91km of the route through Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, which includes the Colne Valley viaduct and the Chilterns tunnelling.
Capita Symonds Ineco JV – £11.1m Country North contract covering 78km of high speed rail through Warwickshire and Staffordshire, and the connection to the West Coast Main Line.
Arup – £11.4m West Midland Metropolitan Area design contract for 22km of the route, Curzon Street Station complex; Birmingham Interchange Station; Washwood Heath Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot.
The firms will prepare preliminary designs to support the bill documents to be submitted to Parliament by the end of next year.
