CT4692 Programme Support Works Framework
- Buyer
- East West Rail Company Limited
- Value
- £450,000,000
- Closes
- 13 November 2026
- Where
- MILTON KEYNES
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
East West Rail Company Limited is setting up a framework of approved suppliers for early site work on the East West Rail programme, worth up to £450m ex VAT over 8 years (a 4-year core term plus optional extensions of 2, 1 and 1 years). The work covers preparing the route before main construction starts, including surveys, ground investigation, environmental and archaeological work, and early site set-up.
What the buyer wants
• Ground investigation, site and utilities surveys, environmental and ecological surveys, and archaeological investigation and mitigation, as called off under the framework. • Ecological and environmental works, and enabling works such as compounds, access routes and haul roads, to prepare the route ahead of main works. • For Lot 0 only, a single supplier acting as CDM Principal Contractor, managing site safety, maintaining the master programme and interface register, and providing integrated reporting to EWR.
Lots
- Integrator & Principal Contractor
- Historic Environment
- Ground Investigation and Monitoring
- Environmental & Ecological Survey Works
- Environmental and Ecological Mitigation Works
- Enabling Works (Self PC/CDM only May Be Requested)
Requirements
What could rule a small business out (our reading of the notice, written with AI): The notice does not set out financial or experience thresholds, but Lot 0 is a single-supplier Principal Contractor role, bidders can be restricted from holding several lots under the separate Appendix Q rules, and awards depend on proving sufficient capacity and capability, so a small firm would most likely be ruled out of Lot 0 or of winning multiple lots.
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How to bid
This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.
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