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# Airport Route Upgrades

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/airport-route-upgrades-ocds-h6vhtk-056a9d). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** 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. Published submission portal: www.open-uk.org.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/tyne-and-wear-passenger-transport-executive-t-a-nexus-GB-PPON-PNTB-4383-VMJH)
- **Published Value:** £16,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 4 September 2026 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Competitive flexible procedure
- **Main Category:** works
- **Classifications (CPV):** Construction work for buildings relating to railway transport, Railway equipment
- **Delivery Location:** UKC
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 9 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/airport-route-upgrades-ocds-h6vhtk-056a9d#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-056a9d`

## Before you bid
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- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/airport-route-upgrades-ocds-h6vhtk-056a9d#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [open-uk.org](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.open-uk.org%2F)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/airport-route-upgrades-ocds-h6vhtk-056a9d#participate

## Description
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.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 34940000, 45213320
- **Delivery regions:** UKC
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £16,000,000

- **Contract Period:** 30/11/2026 to 29/10/2027

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F010347-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-08-27T15:41:56.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T13:49:55.480Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-056a9d