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CROSSRAIL AND TFL IMPLEMENT JOINT INITIATIVE FOR THE PROCUREMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF ESCALATORS AND AWARDS CONTRACT WORTH UP TO £190M, WITH INCENTIVES TO IMPROVE RELIABILITY
Crossrail and Transport for London (TfL) have awarded a contract to Otis for over 100 escalators for Crossrail and the Tube network including 57 escalators for the new Crossrail stations in central London.
Martin Rowark, Crossrail’s Procurement Director said: “Every day millions of passengers on London’s transport network are reliant on escalators to get them to and from station platforms. Crossrail will carry over 200 million passengers each year and escalators will play a crucial role in getting passengers into the massive new stations and onto trains that will whisk them across London. Crossrail and TfL have combined our buying power to secure significant cost savings as well as a standardised escalator for stations and a long-term maintenance deal.”
Under this contract, Otis has committed to a 60 per cent improvement in Tube escalator reliability with incentives to increase this further and payments are linked to achieving these improvements.
There are over 428 escalators across the Tube network, each escalator operates for 20 hours a day and they are intensively used so need to be built to last. The cost of designing, building and maintaining a single escalator over its 40 year life is around £2.5m. This contract will see up to a 57 per cent capital cost saving per standard escalator.
Under this contract, installation of new escalators for the Tube network is due to begin in early 2013 with work underway from 2014 at the Crossrail stations.
The contract is also open to the whole TfL group and could be extended further to meet any future Tube needs and that of Docklands Light Railway and London Overground.
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