A46 Coopers Hill Southern Corner

This advert is intended to notify potential suppliers of the upcoming tender for A46 Coopers Hill Southern Corner scheme and to invite attendance to a market engagement event.

The A46 Coopers Hill South Corner scheme will remediate the historic landslip movements that have resulted in deterioration of the carriageway surface, supporting Vehicular Restraint System (VRS) and slope below. The scheme will improve traffic conditions for people living and working in Gloucestershire by improving highways safety along the A46.

This contract will deliver the construction and remediation of the A46 Coopers Hill South Corner site located south of Brockworth, Gloucestershire.

Construction and remediation will include;
• Installation of 42 No. 750mm piles over an approximate 85m section along the northern verge.
• Installation of VRS into pile capping beam.
• Additional 40m of VRS to be installed using conventional foundation.
• Road realignment with installation of associated drainage.

A summary of the outline programme for the scheme is shown below:
Tender period: 28th September 2020 to 30th October 2020
Anticipated Award: November 2020
Works Start Date: January 2021
Completion: April 2021
Overall Duration: 14 weeks
Indicative Value: £1m

The proposed procurement route will be a single stage (open process) using the NEC4 ECC Option A Priced form of contract with Activity Schedule.

Full details will be available in the tender pack advertised on 28th September 2020.

An introduction to this scheme will be provided at a supplier engagement event that will be held as a Microsoft Teams telecon on;
Wednesday 30th September 2020: 10:00hrs to 11:30hrs

To join this telecon please confirm attendance via the messages function of this Procontact advert and provide e-mail addresses of attendees.

If those unable to join this telecon, the presentation will be uploaded to the Attachments section of Procontract.