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26013 Cambourne to Cambridge Construction Procurement

Buyer: Cambridgeshire County Council →

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BuyerCambridgeshire County Council
StatusClosed
Deadline2 Jul 2026
Value£150,000,000
Published21 May 2026

What is being bought

The purpose of the Scheme is to increase capacity, improve journey times and the reliability and resilience of passenger services that serve the Greater Cambridge area. To achieve this purpose, the Scheme will connect Camborne with Cambridge by a guided bus route. Description of the Scheme Works: • A mostly segregated guided busway and adjoining emergency and maintenance access track to also be used for active travel; • public transport stops; • operational lighting; • bridges over the M11 motorway and Bin Brook; • signalised junctions where the route crosses existing roads; • Travel Hub (Park and Ride) providing spaces for cars, bicycles and coaches; • amendments to existing highways and accesses, parking arrangements, drainage and the construction of fencing, environmental mitigation, earthworks and landscaping; • along with other ancillary works as required. It is intended to procure the works via a 2-stage tender process utilising the NEC4 Option C form of contract including X22 Early Contractor Involvement. The outline Scope for the stage 1 works includes: - • Undertake all necessary surveys • TWAO Design validation • Preliminary Design • Detailed design • Detailed construction programme Cost management - the successful Contractor will work with the Client's commercial manager to develop the stage 2 target cost throughout the stage 1/ECI period. Development of the target cost; Work package negotiation and procurement all subcontract packages will be tendered on an 'open book' basis with the Client and Project Manager having full visibility of all tender returns and any adjustments, allowances, attendances etc Preliminaries - based on resourced construction programme and staff rates included in stage 1 tender Buildability assessments Construction operations planning Programme development Logistics and access arrangements The price for the stage 1 tender for the X22/ECI works will consist of contractor's preliminaries/fee for undertaking the stage 1 works and managing the design process, design costs for surveys, investigations and Scoping, TWAO Design Validation and Preliminary Design and Detailed Design. As part of the evaluation, tenderers will be required to provide fixed percentages for overheads and profit which will be applied to both stage 1 and stage 2 of the contract. As part of the tender there will also be a requirement to provide a budget price for the scheme based on the current TWAO design cost plan which will be included in the ITT pricing document and a schedule of staff rates which will be used for the stage 2 preliminaries costs. Neither of these elements will form part of the tender evaluation for stage 1. Full details of the procurement procedure, the intended Contract, required Works, and the process for expressing an interest in this opportunity are detailed within the associated tender documents. The Council reserves the right to abandon the procurement and is not bound to award any contract arising from this Tender Notice. Applicants are solely responsible for all costs and expenses incurred in relation to the preparation and submission of their PSQ Response, as well as any costs arising from participation in subsequent stages of the procurement, assessment, and contract award process.

Delivery location

UKH12, GB

Categories

Construction work 45000000Engineering design services 71320000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£150,000,000
Contract periodFrom 4 Jan 2027 to 31 Dec 2030

Award criteria
Quality

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Construction work, Engineering design servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 45. The category anchor is Construction work (45000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 4512,0854 median · 25.8 average (3,440 of 12,085 with a bid count)3.8 average (3,798 of 12,085 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer31Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKH12947 median · 87.4 average (18 of 94 with a bid count)12.2 average (18 of 94 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)37022 median · 126.6 average (5 of 370 with a bid count)12 average (5 of 370 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleMarket engagement was carried out via publication of a UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice which can be seen at https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007939-2026?origin=Dashboard. That notice is not linked to this UK4 notice as explained within this UK12: Procurement termination notice https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/019610-2026?origin=Dashboard
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06625d
Latest release ID046973-2026
Latest release timestampThu May 21 2026 10:47:54 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/046973-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsCompetitive flexible procedure
Main procurement categoryworks
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadline2026-07-02T12:00:00+01:00
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-12-14T23:59:59Z
Submission method detailsAll bids must be submitted electronically via the Council's e-tendering portal - ProContract. Full details and all associated tender documents can be found here: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=bed92600-cf34-f111-813c-005056b64545&p=ea3edb62-3a92-eb11-810c-005056b64545
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£150,000,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
21 May 2026tender046973-2026
4 Mar 2026planning019603-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
21 May 2026 · 046973-2026 · tender
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    "description": "The purpose of the Scheme is to increase capacity, improve journey times and the reliability and resilience of passenger services that serve the Greater Cambridge area.\nTo achieve this purpose, the Scheme will connect Camborne with Cambridge by a guided bus route.  \nDescription of the Scheme Works:\n•\tA mostly segregated guided busway and adjoining emergency and maintenance access track to also be used for active travel;  \n•\tpublic transport stops;  \n•\toperational lighting;  \n•\tbridges over the M11 motorway and Bin Brook;\n•\tsignalised junctions where the route crosses existing roads;\n•\tTravel Hub (Park and Ride) providing spaces for cars, bicycles and coaches;  \n•\tamendments to existing highways and accesses, parking arrangements, drainage and the construction of fencing, environmental mitigation, earthworks and landscaping;\n•\talong with other ancillary works as required.\nIt is intended to procure the works via a 2-stage tender process utilising the NEC4 Option C form of contract including X22 Early Contractor Involvement.\nThe outline Scope for the stage 1 works includes: - \n•\tUndertake all necessary surveys\n•\tTWAO Design validation\n•\tPreliminary Design\n•\tDetailed design\n•\tDetailed construction programme\nCost management - the successful Contractor will work with the Client's commercial manager to develop the stage 2 target cost throughout the stage 1/ECI period. \nDevelopment of the target cost; Work package negotiation and procurement \nall subcontract packages will be tendered on an 'open book' basis with the Client and Project Manager having full visibility of all tender returns and any adjustments, allowances, attendances etc\nPreliminaries - based on resourced construction programme and staff rates included in stage 1 tender\nBuildability assessments\nConstruction operations planning\nProgramme development\nLogistics and access arrangements\nThe price for the stage 1 tender for the X22/ECI works will consist of contractor's preliminaries/fee for undertaking the stage 1 works and managing the design process, design costs  for surveys, investigations and Scoping, TWAO Design Validation and Preliminary Design and Detailed Design. As part of the evaluation, tenderers will be required to provide fixed percentages for overheads and profit which will be applied to both stage 1 and stage 2 of the contract.\nAs part of the tender there will also be a requirement to provide a budget price for the scheme based on the current TWAO design cost plan which will be included in the ITT pricing document and a schedule of staff rates which will be used for the stage 2 preliminaries costs. Neither of these elements will form part of the tender evaluation for stage 1.\nFull details of the procurement procedure, the intended Contract, required Works, and the process for expressing an interest in this opportunity are detailed within the associated tender documents.\nThe Council reserves the right to abandon the procurement and is not bound to award any contract arising from this Tender Notice. Applicants are solely responsible for all costs and expenses incurred in relation to the preparation and submission of their PSQ Response, as well as any costs arising from participation in subsequent stages of the procurement, assessment, and contract award process.",
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    "submissionMethodDetails": "All bids must be submitted electronically via the Council's e-tendering portal - ProContract.\nFull details and all associated tender documents can be found here:\n https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=bed92600-cf34-f111-813c-005056b64545&p=ea3edb62-3a92-eb11-810c-005056b64545",
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