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Published 21 May 2024, 11:52 BST

Official UK procurement notice

HS2 Route-wide Framework (Pre-Procurement Market Engagement)

Official notice

Authority: High Speed Two (HS2) Limited (Public body)

Framework agreementWorks
Planned pipeline value£600,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 31 Oct 2024from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

High Speed Two (HS2) Limited (‘HS2 Ltd’) is responsible for developing and promoting the new high speed railway known as High Speed Two (‘HS2’).

This Periodic Indicative Notice ('PIN') relates to the forthcoming procurement for the HS2 Route-wide Framework which will cover all of the HS2 route.

This PIN is to alert suppliers that HS2 Ltd intends to commence pre-procurement market engagement, to support the proposed procurement in 2024.

To register your interest for this event, please use the following link:

www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/HS2RWCF/ ↗

Registration deadline is Wednesday 5th June 2024 @ 12pm (noon UK time)

CPV: City railway construction work · Construction supervision services · Construction work · Construction work for bridges and tunnels, shafts and subways · Construction work for buildings relating to railway transport · Construction work for railways and cable transport systems · Construction work for tunnels, shafts and subways · Construction-related services · Construction-site supervision services · Engineering design services for the construction of civil engineering works · Intercity railway works · Railway construction works · +7 more

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1The works will be route widePlanned

The works will be route wide.

Initial packages of works relate to Phase One and will cover works across the trace, this includes but is not limited to, civils works, environmental works, construction of permanent and temporary assets (roads, buildings, fencing), maintenance works, rail systems enabling scope, MEP scope and noise barriers. Future packages may contain works that are required for integration between civils and rail systems contracts and/or station contracts.

The indicative value range of these works is £500m to £600m.

Pre-procurement market engagement documents will be made available by HS2 Ltd to registered suppliers and will include supplemental information on specific elements of the emerging procurement and delivery strategy.

To be involved in the pre-procurement market engagement, please refer to the registration process and important notices in section VI.3 below.

Delivery: UK

What it takes to win
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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 more
What this means for your bid
  • “HS2 Route-wide Framework (Pre-Procurement Market Engagement)” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
Procurement category
Works
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
21 May 2024, 11:52 BST
Last source update
21 May 2024, 11:52 BST
FTS notice number
2024/S 000-015991
Classification (CPV)
City railway construction workConstruction supervision servicesConstruction workConstruction work for bridges and tunnels, shafts and subwaysConstruction work for buildings relating to railway transportConstruction work for railways and cable transport systemsConstruction work for tunnels, shafts and subwaysConstruction-related servicesConstruction-site supervision servicesEngineering design services for the construction of civil engineering works
+9 moreIntercity railway worksRailway construction works
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-046933 Find a Tender

Publisher note: Conditions regarding this PIN: 1)HS2 Ltd is initiating a pre-procurement market engagement exercise intended to: - raise market awareness of the potential opportunities associated with the forthcoming procurement; and - to engage with interested parties through market engagement 2) To register your interest, please use the following link: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/HS2RWCF/ Registration deadline is Wednesday 5th June 2024 @ 12pm (noon UK time). Further market engagement is anticipated to take place in Q2/Q3 2024. Please also note the following important notices before registering an interest: 1) This PIN is not a call for competition and is not published with the intention of reducing any time limits for the receipt of tenders. 2) HS2 Ltd reserves the right not to commence any procurement process or award any contracts in respect of this scope of works and to amend the requirements stated in this PIN (or as stated in any pre-procurement market engagement documents). 3) With reference to section II.1.6 (Information about lots), HS2 Ltd will provide information on its emerging thinking on division of the requirements into lots in the pre-procurement market engagement documents to be made available to registered suppliers by HS2 Ltd. HS2 Ltd reserves the right to further develop and change the lotting strategy and/or other aspects of the procurement and delivery strategy as a result of pre-procurement market engagement or otherwise. 4) HS2 Ltd may undertake further and other pre-procurement market consultation exercises but, initially, the market engagement briefing event is to commence market engagement and give suppliers emerging information about the requirements. 5) Publication of this PIN is part of the normal HS2 Ltd due diligence process on its options, and the publication of this PIN does not indicate that a decision has been made on a particular route for a procurement and/or subsequent contract award, if any. 6) Registration does not bind HS2 Ltd to include any party/economic operator in the pre-procurement market engagement exercise. 7) HS2 Ltd is not obliged to communicate with any parties /economic operators that register after the deadline for registration has passed. 8) HS2 Ltd is not obliged to respond to any correspondence on this notice or any matter related to this pre--procurement market engagement exercise and the decision to accept the registration of any interested party/economic operator, and subsequent inclusion in any engagement process shall remain with HS2 Ltd alone. 9) Non-participation in this process will not prevent any party/economic operator from participating in any procurement process in due course.. 10) Given the early stage of the project, and the anticipated impact of the market engagement process, and other internal processes, any information provided to the market shall be subject to change and HS2 Ltd (insofar as it is permitted by law) shall not be liable for any losses incurred by any party/economic operator as a result of reliance on such information. 11)The contract value range set out in this PIN is an indicative range and is subject to revision and is subject to confirmation in any future notices in relation to this procurement.

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

21 May 2024 → 31 Oct 2024 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published
    21 May 2024, 11:52 BST
  2. Tender notice expected
    31 Oct 2024

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

HS2

Contracting authorityPublic bodyRailway services High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd, Two Snowhill, Queensway, Birmingham, UK, B4 6GAContact email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.