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Network Rail awards £1.6bn in framework contracts • LNW North – Miller
Rob Offord, said: “The awarding of these frameworks represents a significant milestone in the implementation of our new procurement and contracting strategy. This will bring improved safety, whole-life cost efficiency and delivery performance through collaborative relationships with a consolidated and strategically aligned supply chain.”
Network Rail is awarding 20 framework
agreements with a
combined value of £1.6bn to a total of nine suppliers, it has been announced.
The frameworks cover an
extensive programme of enhancement and renewals
to
the London North Western (LNW) and East Midlands routes over the next five years.
Network Rail’s Infrastructure Projects director for the region,
Nine companies won the 20 contracts, including Amey, whose chief executive Mel Ewell said: “Network Rail is a key client for Amey, and through this framework we are able to further support their aims to drive value and enhance collaboration across their supply chain. It provides an excellent vehicle for sharing of best practice to support
improvements to Britain’s rail network.”
The 20 framework agreements are made up of nine panel
contracts (where each project is worth £4.3m to £100m), and 11 programme contracts (with each project worth up to £4.3m).
The panel contracts are:
Railway Engineering • East Midlands – Carillion Construction Ltd (£348m) • LNW South – VolkerRail Ltd (£100m)
• LNW North – VolkerRail Ltd (£110m)
Civil Engineering
• East Midlands – Amalgamated Construction Ltd / J Murphy & Sons Ltd (£246m) • LNW South – Skanska Construction UK Ltd (£85m) • LNW North – Buckingham Group Contracting Ltd (£40m)
Buildings
• East Midlands – Miller Construction (UK) Ltd (£127m) • LNW South – Buckingham Group Contracting Ltd (£60m)
Construction (UK) Ltd (£40m)
For the programme contracts, Story Contracting Ltd will provide structures, earthworks and property works for the LNW North (North) area across three contracts worth a combined £84m, while the equivalent contracts for LNW South and the southern end of LNW North were split between Amalgamated Construction Ltd (£99m) and J Murphy & Sons Ltd (£207m).
Amey will deliver electrification and plant for LNW South on a £36m framework
contract,
while VolkerRail Ltd won a £61m contract covering electrification and plant for LNW North, both its northern and southern elements.
These figures (lot value) are the minimum commitment awarded to each supplier over CP5.
Siemens to build 150 new carriages for South West Trains the network in decades.”
South West Trains plans to award a £210m contract for 150 new train carriages to manufacturer Siemens.
The 30 new five-carriage Desiro City trains, to be bought by and leased from Angel Trains, will be similar in design to the Class 700s that Siemens is building for the Thameslink route.
They will help provide for more than 18,000 extra peak-time passengers every day travelling into London Waterloo, the country’s busiest station.
It is expected the order will also allow for a further 6,000 daily peak-time passengers once infrastructure upgrades are completed on the mainline and Hounslow loop.
Tim Shoveller, chief executive for the South West Trains-Network Rail Alliance, said: “These exciting
plans will deliver the
biggest step-change in capacity and service to our customers on
The first of the 150 new carriages will start arriving in 2017 and all will be in service by early 2018. All of the new trains will be maintained by SWT at the Wimbledon depot, which recently had a £6m upgrade.
South West Trains said the roll-out of 108 refurbished carriages, worth £65m, is ongoing. That project – bringing together carriages from Class 460s and Class 458s in a complex re-engineering exercise – has been covered in previous editions of RTM, following a visit to Wabtec’s Doncaster depot in April 2013.
Rail minister Claire Perry said: “This latest new train deal is proof not only of our determination to transform
Britain’s railways but
also the industry’s commitment to deliver a better journey for Britain’s passengers.”
It has been forecast that the contract will create 140 jobs, with employment opportunities for
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engineers, drivers, guards and maintenance staff.
The order by is the part of a
comprehensive five-year plan developed
Alliance to
transform services, including the full re-opening of four platforms at the former Waterloo International Terminal and then extending Platforms 1-4 to accommodate longer 10-carriage trains.
Steve Scrimshaw, managing director at Siemens Rail Systems,
said: “The new Desiro City trains will transform the lives of passengers travelling on south- western England’s rail network. Those passengers already benefit from some of the UK’s best-loved trains, the Desiro UK, but the Desiro City takes the best and makes it even better.”
He added that “no other train in the UK is as technologically advanced and offers as many benefits in terms of passenger environment, capacity and reliability”.
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