Tender

SC250102 - Bean Road Tunnel

KENT COUNTY COUNCIL

  • Contract Timeline

    Publication Date

    17th September 2024 14:51:31 PM

    Tender Deadline

    17th October 2024 11:00:00 AM   18 days remaining

  • Contract Summary

    Kent County Council (KCC) is the largest local authority in England covering an area of 3,500 square kilometres. It has an annual expenditure of over £1bn on goods and services and a population of 1.6m. The Council provides a wide range of personal and strategic services on behalf of its residents, operating in partnership with the NHS Kent and Medway Clinical Commissioning Group, 12 district councils, and 289 parish/town councils. KCC consists of four directorates: - Adult Social Care and Health; - Children, Young People and Education; - Growth, Environment and Transport; and - Strategic and Corporate Services. This service is being commissioned on behalf of the Growth, Environment and Transport directorate. The scheme requires the construction of a new tunnel on the Bead Road in Kent. Fastrack Bean Road Tunnel is broadly a new 75m long tunnel (technically an underpass due to short length) through the chalk spine under the B255 Bean Road between Whitecliffe (former Eastern Quarry) and Bluewater Shopping Centre, serving to directly connect the shopping centre to the new Whitecliffe development and Ebbsfleet International Railway Station. It will form part of the Fastrack bus rapid transit system within Kent Thameside. The tunnel will house a 3.5m wide Bi-directional Fastrack busway linking Whitecliffe and Bluewater, as well as providing a combined footway / cycleway and footway linking the Whitecliffe and Bluewater as part of the Ebbsfleet Garden City green corridor network. Project value is £25.5m with construction cost budget of circa. £20.43m For any Supplier who wishes to apply, the tender documentation is available via the Kent Business Portal (www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk). The documentation will need to be downloaded and submitted back to the Council via the Kent Business Portal. Please direct all communication via the Kent Business Portal which can be found at the following web address: www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk. Any communication outside of this will be redirected to the Kent Business Portal. Please note that you will have to register to use the portal.

  • Contract Details

    Open Contracting ID

    ocds-b5fd17-97696a7f-3bab-4026-b321-22f353840105

    Publication Source

    Contracts Finder

    Procurement Stage

    Tender

    Procurement Method

    Selective

    Procurement Method Details

    Competitive Procedure With Negotiation (above Threshold)

    Procurement Category

    Works

    Tender Suitability

    SME

    Framework / DPS

  • Contract Classification

    CPV Code(s)

    45000000

    CPV Division(s)

    45 - Construction work

  • Awarding Authority

    KENT COUNTY COUNCIL

    Buyer Name

    Laura Garay

    Buyer Email

    Laura.Garay2@kent.gov.uk

    Buyer Phone

    Buyer Address

    Sessions House

    Maidstone

    ME14 1XQ

    United Kingdom

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