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United Kingdom : Crossrail project team awards the last of its major contracts
Publish Date : 23-Aug-2016
The Crossrail project team has awarded the last of its major contracts concluding one of the biggest ever procurement programmes in the country.
Final 26m contract for a maintenance facility at Plumstead was awarded to a joint venture comprising Alstom Transport, TSO and Costain. Other bids received for this project were from Balfour Beatty and Vinci.
As per the proposal, this facility will feature three railway sidings for maintenance trains and capacity to stable eight passenger trains on the site. Additionally, the site will include staff accommodation, a maintenance building, storage areas, a train refuelling point, a train wash and staff car park.
Simon Wright, Programme Director at Crossrail said, The procurement of billions of pounds worth of work for the Crossrail programme has been a monumental exercise.
The contracts weve signed with our principle contractors have set the future standard for major UK infrastructure projects, helping us to deliver more than 550 apprenticeships, reducing our impact on the environment and spreading the economic benefits of the project.
