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Airport Route Upgrades

Construction work for buildings relating to railway transport
Railway equipment
North East (UKC)
Official notice
Published value
£16,000,000
Submission deadline 4 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus: "Airport Route Upgrades". Published status: active. Published value: £16,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 4 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityTyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A NexusScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
Closed
4 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£16,000,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
3.6Bids / Report
9.7% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
MOTT MACDONALD LIMITEDTop vendor: 70.7% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 121 active published awards; 31 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
MOTT MACDONALD LIMITED1 win£1,000,000
DARKTRACE HOLDINGS LIMITED1 win£251,000
A&M ELECTRICALS LTD1 win£162,879
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityTyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusactive
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published27 Aug 2026, 16:41 BST
Last source update27 Aug 2026, 16:41 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationConstruction work for buildings relating to railway transport, Railway equipment
Delivery area
North East (UKC)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-056a9d
What is being bought
Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive t/a Nexus are seeking to appoint a Principal Contractor to carry out and complete the Airport Route Upgrade works between Newcastle International Airport station and Longbenton (Tyne and Wear). The upgrade works consists of the replacement and renewal of permanent way assets and overhead line equipment. This will include renewal of specified areas of track, which have reached the end of their serviceable life, tamping to achieve a new through alignment, offloading ballast and stressing along with replacing an existing fixed tension overhead line system with a new automatically tensioned system. Certain civil engineering and signalling activities may also form part of the overall scope.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    27 Aug 2026, 16:41 BST
  2. Submission deadline changed to 4 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
    27 Aug 2026, 16:41 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    22 May 2026, 15:05 BST
  4. Submission deadline changed to 31 Aug 2026, 12:00 BST
    22 May 2026, 15:05 BST
  5. Official notice release published
    8 May 2026, 11:37 BST
  6. Submission deadline changed to 22 Jun 2026, 12:00 BST
    8 May 2026, 11:37 BST
  7. Official notice release published
    24 Feb 2026, 10:54 GMT
  8. Published value updated to £16,000,000
    5 Feb 2026, 11:02 GMT
  9. Status changed to active
    5 Feb 2026, 11:02 GMT
  10. Official notice release published
    5 Feb 2026, 11:02 GMT
  11. Submission deadline changed to 3 Jun 2026, 12:00 BST
    5 Feb 2026, 11:02 GMT
  12. Status changed to planning
    31 Jul 2025, 16:51 BST
  13. Official notice release published
    31 Jul 2025, 16:51 BST
  14. Buyer information updated
    31 Jul 2025, 16:51 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    active
    Published value£16,000,000
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    27 Aug 2026, 16:41 BST
  2. Submission deadline
    4 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PNTB-4383-VMJH
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  • Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus
    buyer

    GB-PPON: PNTB-4383-VMJH
    The Spark, Newcastle Helix, St James Boulevard, Newcastle upon Tyne, UKC22, NE4 5DE, GB
    tenders@nexus.org.uk
Documents (4)
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