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# Post Excavation Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/post-excavation-services-ocds-h6vhtk-02b7d1). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** High Speed Two (HS2) Limited: "Post Excavation Services". Published status: complete. Published Value: £55,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 1 Jun 2022, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: hs2.bravosolution.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [High Speed Two (HS2) Limited](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/high-speed-two-hs2-limited-gov-pb460)
- **Published Value:** £55,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 1 June 2022 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Archaeological services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0025
- **Awarded Value:** £55,000,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/post-excavation-services-ocds-h6vhtk-02b7d1#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02b7d1`

## 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/post-excavation-services-ocds-h6vhtk-02b7d1#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [hs2.bravosolution.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhs2.bravosolution.co.uk%2Fweb%2Findex.html)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/post-excavation-services-ocds-h6vhtk-02b7d1#participate

## Description
The Post Excavation Services contract has been awarded to Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd to deliver the final stages of historic environment investigation. The HS2 Project presents an unprecedented opportunity to explore the country’s past, through the UK’s largest ever linear infrastructure project.
The appointed Supplier will provide historic environment and project management expertise to deliver HS2’s end-to-end post-excavation programme, including the analysis, dissemination, publication and archiving of HS2’s historic environment assets from along the line of route.
In procuring this contract HS2 Ltd is delivering commitments made by the Secretary of State for Transport with regard to historic environment, through a programme of post-excavation that provides public benefit and realises HS2’s archaeological legacy. The key contract objectives are to enhance knowledge by:
• contributing to key questions about prehistory and history;
• testing interpretative concepts and methodological techniques; and
• challenging the way that the historic environment we investigate and interpret the past.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 71351914
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Estimated Value:** £55,000,000
- **Description:** The Post Excavation Services contract has been awarded to Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd to deliver the final stages of historic environment investigation. The HS2 Project presents an unprecedented opportunity to explore the country’s past, through th...

- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Post Excavation Services (active)
  - Award id: `029395-2024-c1000_3811-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-124227`
  - Value: £55,000,000 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Post Excavation Services (active)
  - Signed Value: £55,000,000
  - Signed Date: 11/09/2024

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F029395-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-09-13T12:18:52.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-26T02:02:46.885Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02b7d1