Official UK procurement notice
Ground Investigations · UK public procurement notice
Authority: East West Rail Company Limited (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionGround investigation will inform many aspects of the infrastructure design including slope angles for earthworks, foundations for all structures, suitability of material for reuse as fill, contaminated land, retaining wall, drainage design and design of temporary works.
The ground investigations will inform the preliminary design for DCO and for the upcoming detailed design. The Phase 1 ground investigation will target areas that are identified by the designer as critical to the design such as major structures or areas of known geotechnical complexity.
CPV: Construction work
How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market
- Bids received
- 5 bids received · 1 suppliers appointed
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Ground investigation surveys to inform many aspects of the infrastructure design…Awarded
Ground investigation surveys to inform many aspects of the infrastructure design including slope angles for earthworks, foundations for all structures, suitability of material for reuse as fill, contaminated land, retaining wall, drainage design and design of temporary works.
considers that in circumstances where the Contractor was merely exercising a right to claim compensation under an NEC4 Option B "Priced Contract with a Bill of Quantities where there has been a change to the required quantities and the scope of the contract had not otherwise changed there has been no modification but that this is properly characterized as the operation of the contract as originally awarded. However as regards the additional ground investigation surveys, now required EWR acknowledges that this will involve a contractual modification to extend the scope.
What it takes to wini
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 (4)
- Health wellbeing safe and security: 21%
- Pricing schedule: 30%
- Environmental sustainability and social value: 7%
- Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental: 42%
Published award criteria (4)
- Health wellbeing safe and security: 21
- Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental: 42
- Environmental sustainability and social value: 7
- Pricing schedule: 30
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- “Ground Investigations” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
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
- Restricted procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Dynamic market
- Who may use this agreement
- Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 16 Jul 2026, 10:14 BST
- Last source update
- 16 Jul 2026, 10:40 BST
- Authority reference
CT3227- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-067106- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06cc82Find a Tender
Publisher note: The value of this contract was initially estimated ( before commencing the procurement) as a below threshold contract. The contract was procured competitively through the RISQS qualification system using a competitive process akin to the restrictive procedure and a contract summary was published from contract finder. This summary indicated that the actual value of the contract, as awarded, was in fact above threshold.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast2 suppliers are admitted to this dynamic market without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
Contract 067081-2026-CT3227-1
- Signed
- 10 Oct 2024
- Value
- £6,308,167
- Status
- active
Contract 067106-2026-CT3227-1
- Signed
- 10 Oct 2024
- Value
- £25,000,000
- Status
- active
- Change Increase in value to enable continued delivery of works pending replacement arrangements, Need for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor/concessionaire: Primary justification - Regulation 88(1)(b) UCR 2016 (Additional services) The modification is required to procure additional works of the same type from the original contractor which have become necessary for the continued delivery of the programme and were not included in the original procurement. As design develops to take account of consultation feedback and identifications of new risks and opportunities it is not unusual for additional surveys to be required. The conditions for Regulation 88(1)(b) are satisfied as follows: 1. Necessity of additional services • Provision of additional ground investigation surveys is required to support ongoing rail infrastructure development by informing the design and ensuring on-time delivery of the East West Rail Development Consent Orderr • These additional surveys/ boreholes clearly do not change the overall nature of the contract 2. Inability to change contractor for economic / technical reasons without major inconvenience or cost duplication • The contracting entity has recently procured a replacement contractor, Kier Integrated Services Limited ("Kier") to lead Surveys Phase 2 through the SCAPE Utilities Works and Services Framework. Part of the responsibilities of the replacement contractor include surveys, including ground investigation surveys. Kier has been appointed from the SCAPE framework to provide the works and are expected to commence works in June 2026. Given this appointment it would not be feasible to hold a further competitive tender to make a short-term interim appointment to deliver the additional ground investigations required surveys prior to the commencement of the replacement Surveys Phase 2 contract with Kier. To do so would cause major inconvenience by delaying the EWR programme and impacting on the process of obtaining the Development Consent Order. Such an appointment would also involve cost duplication, for example by having two separate contractors incur mobilization costs) given that Kier will separately be mobilising. Therefore, only practicable step to deliver the approximate additional ground investigation surveys is to modify the existing appointment to facilitate this.
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Technology and Construction CourtReview body
Suppliers admitted to the dynamic market
1 commercial party on the notice- Concept engineering consultants LtdAdmitted to the market
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.