Tender: Cambourne to Cambridge Guided Busway Construction – NEC4 Option C (X22 ECI) Stage 1

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The Council is seeking a contractor to deliver stage 1 works for the Cambourne to Cambridge guided busway scheme to increase capacity, improve journey times and the reliability and resilience of passenger services serving the Greater Cambridge area. The scheme includes a mostly segregated guided busway with an adjoining emergency and maintenance access track suitable for active travel, public transport stops, operational lighting, bridges over the M11 motorway and Bin Brook, signalised junctions, a Travel Hub (Park and Ride) with spaces for cars, bicycles and coaches, and amendments to highways, parking, drainage, fencing, environmental mitigation, earthworks, landscaping and other ancillary works. Procurement will follow a two‑stage tender using the NEC4 Option C contract with X22 Early Contractor Involvement; the stage 1 scope covers surveys, TWAO design validation, preliminary and detailed design, a detailed construction programme, cost management to develop the stage 2 target cost, work package negotiation and open‑book subcontract tendering, preliminaries based on a resourced programme and staff rates, buildability assessments, construction planning, and logistics and access arrangements. Stage 1 pricing will comprise contractor preliminaries/fee and design costs, tenderers must provide fixed percentages for overheads and profit to apply to both stages, and a budget price and schedule of staff rates must also be submitted (these latter elements will not form part of the stage 1 evaluation). The Council reserves the right to abandon the procurement and applicants are responsible for their own costs.