TfL opens bidding on £500m framework

Transport for London is set to renew its engineering and project management framework and let up to £500m worth of work over the life of the four year package.

The current £300m framework concludes in November 2009 and the new framework opens for bidding today.

It forms part of TfL’s £39bn of investment which includes upgrading the tube, building Crossrail and extending the DLR and London overground.

The new framework tender will be open to Metronet, Crossrail, the GLA Group, Metropolitan Police Service and London Boroughs.

Andy Quincey, TfL director of procurement, said: “This framework is looking to provide a range of specialist engineering and project management skills. We will be looking at short term and specialist skills on a project by project basis.”

He said that TfL was keen to encourage SME’s to get involved so it had been using ‘competefor’ to advertise the opportunity.

"We’re hoping that SME’s will join together in their own partnerships to form part of the framework,” he added.

As part of TfL’s drive to deliver £2.4bn in efficiency savings over the next ten years Quincey said the framework would “deliver disciplined, better value for money than the last one”.

The process begins today when a notice is published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).

The framework categories are:

• Asset Management
• Civil & Structural Engineering
• Commercial Services
• Environmental Services
• Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
• Project and Programme Management and Strategy
• Railway Engineering - Assets
• Railway Engineering - Process
• (Road User/Transport) Engineering
• Transport Planning and Analysis
• Transport Impact Monitoring and Data