COMPANY NEWS
Four win big on £2bn electrification contracts
Network Rail has appointed four suppliers for its £2bn electrification programme.
Balfour Beatty, AmeyInabensa, CarillionPowerlines
and ABC
Electrification have been awarded six geographic framework contracts. The programme will include electrification of the Great Western and Midland main lines, Liverpool to Manchester and Preston, the Valley lines in South Wales and the ‘electric spine’.
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EGIP major contracts awarded
Morgan Sindall and Costain have been awarded alliancing contracts to work on the Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Project (EGIP). Working with Network Rail, they will help to electrify the Falkirk Line in a £5m deal. This will also include route clearance works at Winchburgh Tunnel as well as rail infrastructure works at Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley stations and extensions to intermediate platforms at Croy, Falkirk High, Polmont and Linlithgow.
EGIP’s main £250m civils and electrification contracts will be awarded in the summer.
Head of heavy rail for Nexus
Nexus has created a new role to advise on heavy rail and help the PTE to lobby the government for key decisions on rail services in the north.
James Farnell-Smith will work on the ongoing refranchising of Northern Rail, as well as advising on HS2 and leading development for Nexus on the North East Rail Strategy. He joined Nexus as a graduate trainee in 2009 and was managing the Tyne and Wear Metro’s operating contract with Deutsche Bahn.
Civils frameworks awarded for CP5
Network Rail has awarded £300m civils framework agreements for the next five years.
The zero-value contracts will cover civil examinations and assessments across the entire network, apart from the LNW route, which will use in-house teams.
The framework agreements go to:
Anglia: Aecom and Amey Kent: Amey
LNE and East Midlands: Aecom and Amey LNW: Aecom, SKM and Opus Scotland: Aecom Sussex, Wales, Wessex and
Western: WSP
Network Rail’s director of contracts and procurement, Ian Sexton, said: “Monitoring the condition of our infrastructure – including bridges, tunnels, embankments and culverts – is a vital part of keeping Britain’s railways safe. By working with these trusted suppliers over the next five years we can continue to improve and build on the knowledge we have of our network.”
Mel Ewell, Amey’s chief executive, said: “Continuing our successful examinations and assessments relationship
with
Network Rail is great news for our business. The scope of the new contracts spanning the next five years builds on Amey’s and Network Rail’s track record of strong performance by making better use of technology and introducing more efficient ways of working.”
£90m haulage contract for Colas Rail
Network Rail and Colas Rail have signed a £90m freight haulage contract.
Colas Rail will provide haulage for daily network services and passenger services, mainly for the Western and Southern regions.
Services to the Eastern and Northern regions,
including Scotland, could also be provided.
Stephen Haynes, managing director of Colas Rail Services said: “We
are delighted that
Network Rail has awarded us with a significant part of the locomotive haulage contract,
providing the vital engineering trains for rail
infrastructure maintenance and enhancements.
“We are committed to providing a high quality service to Network Rail in an alliance approach given that we benefit from being a major Infrastructure contractor for rail maintenance, track renewals and enhancements.”
HS2 salaries high ‘to attract world-class engineers’
The government has defended the
high salaries for the top
jobs at HS2, stating that the country needs to attract the best engineers to the project.
Its chair David Higgins, who will take up the role full-time from March, will be paid a salary of £591,000. New chief executive Simon Kirby, who
will join HS2 in June, will be paid £750,000. But the current chief executive Alison Munro is paid just £115,000. She will take up a new role as director of development for HS2 this summer.
Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin said: “We need to attract the best people we
possibly can. So we are going for the best engineers in the world to engineer this project”.
Speaking to the BBC, he added: “I am rather pleased that engineers, rather than bankers, can be seen to get big rewards for delivering what will be very important
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