Official UK procurement notice
A9 Dualling: Tay Crossing to Ballinluig
Authority: Transport Scotland·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Scope involves the design, construction, completion and maintenance of the A9 Dualling: Tay Crossing to Ballinluig project. The project forms part of the overall A9 dualling programme, which aims to improve the operational performance of the A9, improve safety for motorised and non-motorised users, facilitate active travel within the corridor, and improve integration with public transport facilities.
The project will upgrade approximately 5 miles (8.2km) of existing single carriageway, commencing just north of the Jubilee Bridge over the river Tay and ending at the southern end of the existing dual carriageway south of Ballinluig Junction. This section of the A9 is located within close proximity to a number of designated environmental sites, including watercourses forming part of the River Tay special area of conservation which are crossed by the existing A9.
The project involves, but is not limited to:
- Widening of existing A9 single carriageway to Dual 2 lane All-purpose roads Sub-category c (D2APc) standard, in accordance with ‘CD 109 Highway Link Design’ within the UK Design Manual for Roads and Bridges
- Construction of seven left-in left-out junctions
- Construction of a roundabout
- Upgrade to side roads including resurfacing or realignment and other improvements
- Construction of access roads to rural properties
- Provision of one new overbridge structure (Guay South Overbridge) and one new underbridge structure (Kindallachan Underbridge).
- Replacement and/or upgrade to a number of existing structures including culverts and Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) developed in consultation with Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).
- Provision of traffic management, earthworks, retaining walls, soil nailing, road restraint systems, accommodation works, service diversions, fencing, signage, landscaping and environmental mitigation.
CPV: Access road construction work · Construction work for highways, roads · Culverts · Cycle path construction work · Demolition, site preparation and clearance work · Dual carriageway construction work · Environmental improvement works · Erection of road-barriers · Excavating and earthmoving work · Footpath construction work · Installation of road lighting equipment · Installation of road signs · +10 more
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Transport Scotland is an agency of the Scottish Government and contracts in the name…AwardedPublished value£155,000,000
Transport Scotland is an agency of the Scottish Government and contracts in the name of and on behalf of the Scottish Ministers. Transport Scotland has identified the requirement to appoint a suitably experienced Contractor to design & build a new dual carriageway between north of the Jubilee Bridge over the river Tay and the southern end of the existing dual carriageway south of Ballinluig Junction.
The contract will include a 260 week period of maintenance after completion of the main works and a 260 week period of landscape establishment following completion of landscape planting. The Contractor will not be required to carry out cyclic maintenance, which shall be carried out by a third party appointed by the Scottish Ministers.
The Contractor will be procured through a Competitive Dialogue procedure, in accordance with the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. Transport Scotland will manage the proposed procurement process for the A9 Dualling Tay Crossing to Ballinluig Contract on behalf of the Scottish Ministers. In the event of a Contract award, the Contract will be entered into between the Scottish Ministers and the successful tenderer.
The procurement process leading to the award of the Contract will comprise the following:
- Prequalification (SPD) (approx. 6 weeks)
- Competitive Dialogue (approx. 33 weeks)
- Tender (approx. 6 weeks)
- Award
Detailed information regarding the award process and award criteria for the tender phase will be supplied to economic operators who are invited to participate in dialogue.
Transport Scotland shall notify Participants when the Competitive Dialogue phase has concluded and invite the Participants who have presented an acceptable solution to submit a final tender.
The form of contract is to be an NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC) Option A: priced contract with activity schedule with amendments. Contract documentation will be provided at Invitation to Participate in Dialogue (ITPD) stage to shortlisted participants, however the DRAFT conditions of contract will be made available for all economic operators to review within the Information Pack. Refer to Section VI.3) for further information on how to access to the Information Pack.
Transport Scotland is providing a DRAFT of its conditions of contract to ensure prospective economic operators are informed as early as possible of the contract. The DRAFT conditions of contract are subject to change and no obligation, liability, duty of care or responsibility to any party is created by or shall arise out of this.
Selected Participants, following the Competitive Dialogue stage, shall be invited to submit a final tender on the same contract terms and conditions.
To be considered for the prequalification stage, economic operators are required to complete and submit a Single Procurement Document (SPD) in accordance with this Contract Notice and the Supplementary Information Document (SID) which can be accessed via the Additional Documents located within the Additional Notice Options, this can be downloaded via the Public Contracts Scotland portal (www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk ↗).
Economic operators shall be evaluated in accordance with the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, on the basis of the information they have provided within the SPD.
It is intended that the Contract will include the design and construction of the works which will last approximately 156 weeks, followed by a 260 week period of maintenance including defect correction and establishment of landscaping. Additional information: Economic operators who initially meet but then subsequently fails to meet the objective criteria, prior to contract award, shall be excluded. Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Criteria including approach to delivery & management, technical aspects, construction, commercial, risk and sustainability aspects of the project. Further detail will be issued to shortlisted bidders.: 50%
- Final tenders will be assessed against evaluation criteria to determine the most economically advantageous submission. Further information will be issued to shortlisted bidders.: 50%
Published award criteria (2)
- Criteria including approach to delivery & management, technical aspects, construction, commercial, risk and sustainability aspects of the project. Further detail will be issued to shortlisted bidders.: 50
- Final tenders will be assessed against evaluation criteria to determine the most economically advantageous submission. Further information will be issued to shortlisted bidders.: 50
- Suitability
The relevant selection criteria will be included in the SPD Scotland module and Supplementary Information Document which can be found in the Additional Documents, within the Additional Notice Options of the Public Contracts Scotland portal (www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk ↗)
Economic operators must be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers kept in the Member state of its establishment (as described in Schedule 5 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015) (i.e., registered under Companies House). Economic operators should provide details under SPD Question Ref. 4A.1.
Accreditation
Economic operators or their appropriate subcontractors must be accredited under National Highway Sector Scheme (NHSS). The relevant NHSS accreditations are included within the section VI.3 of the Supplementary Information Document.
Economic operators who are not accredited shall not progress beyond the assessment selection stage.
Economic operators must provide confirmation of the required accreditations under SPD Question Ref. 4D.1, in accordance with the requirements of this Contract Notice.
Staff
The successful tenderer shall be required to comply with the CDM Regulations (2015) and to comply with all other relevant health and safety law. Additionally, all site staff are to be accredited under the Construction Skills Construction Safety Scheme (CSCS) or equivalent.
Standards and Specification
Subject to the other provisions of the Contract, the standards and specificat…
- Economic & financial standing
The relevant selection criteria will be included in the SPD Scotland module and Supplementary Information Document which can be found in the Additional Documents, within the Additional Notice Options of the Public Contracts Scotland portal (www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk ↗).
Economic operators shall be required to satisfy minimum standards of economic and financial standing. To determine these standards, economic operators shall:
a) in response to SPD, Question Ref. 4B1a, provide
the specified annual turnover for the last two years of trading, or for the period which is available if trading for less than two years;
b) in response to SPD, Question Ref. 4B.6, provide the name, range and score of nine financial criteria for each year for the last two years of trading, or for the period which is available if trading for less than two years; and
c) in response to SPD, Question Ref. 4B.5, confirm they already have or can commit to obtain, prior to commencement of the contract, the required levels of insurance.
In addition to the information requested under (a) to (c), economic operators must provide a link / copies of the associated annual accounts as filed at Companies House (or equivalent if not a UK registered company). For the avoidance of doubt, if an economic operator fails to provide accounts relating to its last two full years of trading that are due to have been filed, that economic operator will be excluded from this procurement competition.
Where economic operators hav…
Minimum: Economic operators shall be required to satisfy minimum standards of economic and financial standing. These are described below: Evaluation Criteria Ratios (SPD Question Ref. 4B.6) The following nine evaluation criteria shall be scored, for each year of the last two years of trad… - Technical & professional ability
The relevant selection criteria will be included in the SPD Scotland module and Supplementary Information Document which can be found in the Additional Documents, within the Additional Notice Options of the Public Contracts Scotland portal (www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk ↗)
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
- Price carries 100 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 10 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Competitive dialogue
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 16 Apr 2024, 12:59 BST
- Last source update
- 19 Aug 2025, 11:30 BST
- Authority reference
TS/MP/WKS/2024/05- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-049773- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0452a1Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Performance terms
It is the Employer’s policy to measure the performance of the Contractor on a regular basis.
In the event that the Contractor’s performance falls below a satisfactory level, the Contractor will be invited to determine a means of rectifying the situation. Repeated or continual performance failures may result in suspension or termination of the contract.
Publisher note: (SC Ref:807213)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 10 Jul 2024, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 90 days from the deadline
Timeline
17 May 2024 → 19 Aug 2025 · 4 dates- Next notice expected17 May 2024, 00:00 BST
- Submission deadline10 Jul 2024, 12:00 BST
- Invitations to tender expected19 Aug 2024, 00:00 BST
- Notice published19 Aug 2025, 11:30 BST
Notice history
6 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 24 May 2024- Status changed to active24 May 2024, 15:32 BST
- Procurement method changed24 May 2024, 15:32 BST
- Deadline published: 5 Jul 2024, 12:00 BST24 May 2024, 15:32 BST
- Deadline moved to 10 Jul 2024, 12:00 BST2 Jul 2024, 10:57 BST+5 days · was 5 Jul 2024, 12:00 BST
- Status changed to complete19 Aug 2025, 11:30 BST
- Buyer details updated19 Aug 2025, 11:30 BST
Published amendments (1 · 1 deadline change)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | DeadlineTime limit · IV.2.2 | 5 Jul 2024 | 10 Jul 2024 | +5 d |
Transport Scotland has extended the deadline for Single Procurement Document returns to 12 noon on 10 July 2024.
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2024-04: 1 release · 16 Apr 2024
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd | £152,743,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 049773-2025-TS/MP/WKS/2024/05-1 · Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd
- Signed
- 31 Jul 2025
- Value
- £152,743,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3bids · 3 electronic · 3 from abroad | 0 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeDispute resolution & review bodies
- Sheriff Clerk's OfficeReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Wills Bros Civil Engineering LtdAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.