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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

HS2

Post Excavation Services

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71000000 71300000 71350000 71351000
Value£32.5m
Awarded8 Dec 2023
Published13 Sept 2024
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£32.5mtotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£35.1m

This is a large award for Engineering & Architecture — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Post Excavation Services Contract has been awarded to Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd to deliver the final stages of historic environment investigation.

The HS2 Project presents an unprecedented opportunity to explore the country's past, through the UK's largest ever linear infrastructure project.

The appointed Supplier will provide historic environment and project management expertise to deliver HS2's end-to-end post-excavation programme, including the analysis, dissemination, publication and archiving of HS2's historic environment assets from along the line of route.

In procuring this contract HS2 Ltd is delivering commitments made by the Secretary of State for Transport with regard to historic environment, through a programme of post-excavation that provides public benefit and realises HS2's archaeological legacy.

The key contract objectives are to enhance knowledge by: - contributing to key questions about prehistory and history; - testing interpretative concepts and methodological techniques; and - challenging the way that the historic environment we investigate and interpret the past.

The contract has been awarded for an initial period of 72 months, which the option to extend for a further 72 months via single or multiple fixed terms, at the sole discretion of HS2 Ltd.

The contract dates published in this notice relate to the initial contract term only.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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The Post Excavation Services Contract has been

The Post Excavation Services Contract has been awarded to Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd to deliver the final stages of historic environment investigation.

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The appointed Supplier will provide historic environment

The appointed Supplier will provide historic environment and project management expertise to deliver HS2's end-to-end post-excavation programme, including the analysis, dissemination, publication and archiving of HS2's historic environment assets from along the line of route.

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OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
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