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Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus

Airport Route Upgrades

ConstructionCPV 45213320
Value£16.0m
Deadline4 Sept 2026
Published27 Aug 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 27 Aug 2026ClosedCloses 4 Sept 2026
Who to contact
tenders@nexus.org.uk

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Contract value in context
£16.0mtotal contract value
median £102k
this tender£0£17.3m

This is a large award for Transport Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 15,368 valued Transport Equipment tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive t/a Nexus are seeking to appoint a Principal Contractor to carry out and complete the Airport Route Upgrade works between Newcastle International Airport station and Longbenton (Tyne and Wear).

The upgrade works consists of the replacement and renewal of permanent way assets and overhead line equipment.

This will include renewal of specified areas of track, which have reached the end of their serviceable life, tamping to achieve a new through alignment, offloading ballast and stressing along with replacing an existing fixed tension overhead line system with a new automatically tensioned system.

Certain civil engineering and signalling activities may also form part of the overall scope.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-056a9d
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
081947-2026
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