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# Lower Thames Crossing - Detailed Design Services for Contestable Gas Assets

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/lower-thames-crossing-detailed-design-services-for-contestable-gas-assets-ocds-h6vhtk-029be7). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** National Highways Limited: "Lower Thames Crossing - Detailed Design Services for Contestable Gas Assets". Published status: complete. Published Value: £800,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 14 Jul 2021, 13:00 BST. Published submission portal: highways.bravosolution.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [National Highways Limited](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/national-highways-limited-gov-ot1346)
- **Published Value:** £800,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 14 July 2021 at 13:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork, Design consultancy services, Gas pipelines, Pipeline-design services, Public utilities
- **Delivery Location:** UK, UKH3, UKH32, UKI
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £673,980 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/lower-thames-crossing-detailed-design-services-for-contestable-gas-assets-ocds-h6vhtk-029be7#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-029be7`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **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/lower-thames-crossing-detailed-design-services-for-contestable-gas-assets-ocds-h6vhtk-029be7#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [highways.bravosolution.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhighways.bravosolution.co.uk%2Fweb%2Flogin.shtml)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/lower-thames-crossing-detailed-design-services-for-contestable-gas-assets-ocds-h6vhtk-029be7#participate

## Description
National Highways is the government company charged with operating, maintaining and improving England's motorways and major A roads. We are delivering the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC), a new high-quality dual carriageway connecting Kent, Thurrock and Essex through a tunnel beneath the River Thames. This is the most ambitious roads project in the UK for more than a generation. The project will be transformational for the UK economy, while offering new connections, better journeys and fewer delays.
This Contract Award Notice is being issued notify the market of the appointment of a designer to support design services for contestable gas assets on the LTC project.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 44161100, 45230000, 65000000, 71322200, 79415200
- **Delivery regions:** UK, UKH, UKI

- **Estimated Value:** £8,000,000
- **Description:** The LTC project affects a number of statutory undertakers' assets. This contract is to undertake the detailed design for the diversion of approximately 17 affected low, intermediate and medium pressure gas pipelines, which are owned by Cadent Gas Ltd...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Lower Thames Crossing - Detailed Design Services for Contestable Gas Assets (active)
  - Award id: `023625-2021-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Capita Property and Infrastructure Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-12559`
  - Value: £673,980 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Lower Thames Crossing - Detailed Design Services for Contestable Gas Assets (active)
  - Signed Value: £673,980
  - Signed Date: 21/09/2021

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F023625-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-09-22T21:45:06.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-25T03:36:36.344Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-029be7