{"id":3618,"date":"2019-03-04T09:27:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T09:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2019-03-04T09:27:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T09:27:32","slug":"preferred-bidder-for-200m-edinburgh-tram-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/preferred-bidder-for-200m-edinburgh-tram-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Preferred bidder for \u00a3200m Edinburgh tram extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edinburgh City Council has named the preferred bidder to deliver its \u00a3200m tram extension to Newhaven.<\/p>\n

A three-way joint venture between Farrans, Sacyr\u00a0of Spain and\u00a0Neopul\u00a0of Brazil, is set to secure a \u00a390m main works contract to\u00a0design and construct the new route from York Place to Newhaven.<\/p>\n

If council chiefs vote to proceed with the project on 14 March, a six-month early contractor involvement period will commence, during which the targeted cost will be fully developed.<\/p>\n

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Also\u00a0councillors will be asked to approve the award of the enabling swept path contract to Morrison Utility Services.<\/p>\n

Morrison will work ahead of the FSN joint venture contractor to identify and clear any below ground obstructions along the tram route.<\/p>\n

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Finance and resources convener councillor Alasdair Rankin said: “The Trams to Newhaven project team has completed a comprehensive and rigorous procurement exercise to select preferred contractors for both elements of the project.<\/p>\n

“This process has been exhaustive in its approach, taking on board substantial lessons learned from the previous projects and following best industry practice.<\/p>\n

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“The Finance and Resources Committee will carefully assess and scrutinise the outcome of this procurement process before arriving at a decision. Awarding the contracts will be subject to a final vote on the project by Council on 14 March.”<\/p>\n

Other bidders for the scheme included:\u00a0BAM\/ Colas Rail; Dragados, Sisk Steconfer joint venture.<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/2UqDMIk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Edinburgh City Council has named the preferred bidder to deliver its \u00a3200m tram extension to Newhaven. A three-way joint venture between Farrans, Sacyr\u00a0of Spain and\u00a0Neopul\u00a0of Brazil, is set to secure a \u00a390m main works contract to\u00a0design and construct the new route from York Place to Newhaven. If council chiefs vote to proceed with the project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-3618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3619,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions\/3619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}