Crossrail announced that it will be putting back the tenders on three major station projects to ease pressure on teams bidding for the projects, Building reported today.The company running the £14.5BN transport project for London stated that about £700M of the £1.5BN remaining station tenders may now be delayed until Easter 2012. The decision will affect three of the bigger station contracts – Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road and Liverpool Street stations.
This reportedly follows complaints from contractors bidding for the tunnel projects whose costs were overrunning due to the short bid time- it also meant that bids were being done concurrently, without the knowledge of whether they were being awarded other Crossrail contracts, which could have an impact on later bids.
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