Carlisle Southern Link Road

Tender description

The Council are seeking to appoint a lead Principal (CDM 2015) Design & Build Contractor to provide all necessary Design & Engineering, Labour, Plant & Materials to undertake all works associated with the delivery of the Carlisle Southern Link Road (CSLR). The CSLR will connect Junction 42 of the M6 with the A595 and will connect with Carlisle Northern Development route from the A595 to Junction 44 of the M6. The CSLR is an 8km road (60mph) which will include four new roundabouts, five cycle bridges and four road bridges and a cycle path along the northern side along its full length. Two of the bridges will cross Network Rail assets (West Coast Main Line and Cumbrian Coast Line) with one of these bridges also crossing the River Caldew. Lot 1: This opportunity relates to a single stage Design and Build Contract contracted under an NEC4 June 17 (amend Jan 19) ECC Option C – Target Contract with Activity Schedule as amended by additional option clauses including the Council ‘Z’ clauses. Further details of the scheme and the draft conditions of contract are available via this link - https://download.4projects.com/?LinkID=1d19411e-e040-457e-96fd-386869124499. Additional information: A pre-procurement market testing questionnaire is available via this project's messages area. We wish to understand market appetite across a number of key topics, and would welcome your feedback and comments. Please complete only the yellow cells. Please return this questionnaire via the project's messages area on The Chest. If you have any questions for us, please send them via the project' messages area on The Chest. Our responses to those questions will be shared with all suppliers. The Chest Project ID is DN626768.