Which companies will be tendering for construction of High speed 2?

[Tin Rocket]

which companies will be bidding for work on HS2? i'm talking about civils,track,signalling,overhead line,who do you think will be doing what and should they start training staff now?

 

[amcluesent]

The winners will already have been, unofficially, selected.

Just as PFI wheezes were handed out to Labour's cronies, HS2 will be a boondoggle for Tory Party donors and old Etonian chums

 

[Nym]

Wow, so we've gotten round the EU tendering process rules then?

 

[deltic]

Contracts will not go to tender for at least 5 years! Expect the same consortiums that are bidding for Crossrail contracts to figure highly at the London end - experience of London tunnelling will be very useful.

 

[Oliver]

HS2 will be a boondoggle for Tory Party donors and old Etonian chums

Really, so all the bosses at Siemens, Hitachi and Alstom went to Eton did they? I never knew that.

 

[CosherB]

HS1 experience will be useful, I dare say.

HS2 will be a boondoggle for Tory Party donors and old Etonian chums

What a load of naive tosh!

 

[crewmeal]

Knowing this govt the tender will go abroad.

 

[ushawk]

If companies from abroad can offer a better service/product than one based in the UK, then that would probably be chosen - hopefully it isnt done on the cheap though.

 

[AndrewP]

There are only so many companies capable of this type of construction. I would expect the following to be interested:

• Bam
• Carillion
• Costain
• Balfour Beatty
• Vinci
• Skanska
• Laing O'Rourke

There may be others but I would be surprised if it goes beyond the usual suspects.

 

[Nym]

Babcock too, then of course top level contractors like Serco, Lockheed, etc.

 

[swt_passenger]

The winners will already have been, unofficially, selected.

Just as PFI wheezes were handed out to Labour's cronies, HS2 will be a boondoggle for Tory Party donors and old Etonian chums

Ridiculous - it's highly likely that there'll have been a change of government before the spades go in the ground.

It will take around three years from Dec 2013 just for the Hybrid Bill to go through parliament - Crossrail took 32 months with nothing like the probable number of objections there'll be for HS2...

As of today they haven't mentioned a start date for physical construction, it's far too soon to wonder about who will build it, but if anything it will be ALL the usual big civils contractors, each doing particular sections - just like HS1 , Crossrail, Thaemslink etc etc...

 

[w1bbl3]

CTRL was of course split into some 800 (ish) contracts with about 20 major packages so I'd be quite frankly amazed if HS2 is one large contract or even a series of mega contracts. As already said every major civils contractor will probably get a slice of the pie.

Most of the civils including the tunnelling and bridges on CTRL was done by specialist civils contractors that happened to have particular expertise in tunnelling, bridge construction or ground works not specialist rail construction teams. Recent highways experince seemed to be key repeating element in sucessful bidders / bidding JV's. Crossrail thus far appears to be follwing a similar path.

Permanent way, signalling and OHLE was let in separate system wide contracts to the usual major rail contractors.