Published date: 14 April 2021

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Awarded contract (published 13 October 2021)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Plastic products - 19520000

Location of contract

United Kingdom, Isle of Man, Channel Islands

Value of contract

£251,000 to £500,000

Procurement reference

C4N54845847

Published date

14 April 2021

Closing date

20 April 2021

Closing time

4pm

Contract start date

30 September 2021

Contract end date

31 December 2021

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Competitive quotation (below threshold)

The buyer selects a group of potential suppliers to invite to tender.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The manufacture and delivery of the polyethylene (of equivalent material property) Shims and Wedges required to assist in supporting the precast viaduct segments on site for the High Speed 2 Section C1 project.

The shim plates & wedges will be used to:
• Build up the different heights and inclinations of the segments bottom slabs, on the support frames - stools at the on storage area,
• Stabilize the precast segments on the steel storage frames (by Others) - stools and transportation steel chairs (by Others) during the transport of the precast segments from storage area to erection point.

Quantities
Shims:
- 200 x 500mm (W x L) = 3,550no. (variety of 5, 10, 20 and 50mm thickness)

Wedges:
- 200 x 500mm (W x L) = 680no. (50mm thickness on short height, with variety of thickness on long height of 55 to 155mm)
- 200 x 1,000mm (W x L) = 245no. (50mm thickness on short height, with variety of thickness on long height of 55 to 260mm)

Loads:
- 200 x 500mm shims and wedges to accommodate 1,000kN
- 200 x 1,000mm wedges to accommodate 1,850kN

The package will be competitively tendered and assessed against a split between commercial (price) and defined technical criteria.
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.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Electra Thanopoulou

Address

Euston House, 24 Eversholt Street
London
NW1 1AD
England

Telephone

01698647999

Email

e.thanopoulou@alignjv.com