Bids invited for £750m UK ports programme

The Peel Ports programme has been split into two frameworks – one for general construction, the other for marine construction – and together they will be worth £750 million (€874 million) over eight years.

The first framework’s scope covers general construction works including drainage; the construction and maintenance of new and existing roads and car parks; earthworks and ground remediation; foundations and piling; the construction, maintenance and refurbishment of new and existing warehouses; paving, surfacing and concrete works; rail construction; bridge construction and refurbishment; and demolition.

The second framework covers specialist marine construction works including piling; asset renewal and refurbishment; berthing furniture and bollards; quay walls; Lock and Sluice gate maintenance and replacement; and RoRo.

:“Our ports form a network of busy logistics hubs servicing local, national and global supply chains, and this move represents a huge step in our efforts to future proof that network, so we can keep responding and adapting to our port users’ needs in an agile way,” said Lewis McIntyre, managing director – Port Services at Peel Ports Group.

“The long-term nature of these framework agreements allows us to build meaningful, commercially sustainable partnerships with our construction contractors. It further allows us to appoint a collection of regional suppliers to give us breadth and depth of scope, skill, and responsiveness; the way the frameworks are structured provides invaluable opportunities for the successful partners to design and build  sustainable solutions for our various projects, in what will be a truly collaborative approach as we aim for Net zero by 2040.”

Peel Ports is the second largest port operator in the UK after Associated British Ports (ABP).

The full notice is available to view here: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/010376-2024