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Awarded · ResultStage · award

High Speed Two (HS2) Limited

Post Excavation Services

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71351914
Value£55,000,000
Awarded
Published13 Sept 2024
RegionNationwide

£55,000,000 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded
Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd

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

Who to contact
Chris Simmons
Chris.Simmons@hs2.org.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£55.0mtotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£59.4m

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.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

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.

02

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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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
029395-2024
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