Fife ITS Contract

Type of Contract: Works
Location: M90 Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland.
Winning TenderValue: £12.9m
Contract Signing Date: 10 June 2011
Duration of Contract: 14 months

The design and build contract will comprise the provision of an Intelligent Transport System (ITS) on the northbound and southbound carriageways of the M90 between Junction 1 (Admiralty) and Junction 3 (Halbeath) and on the associated road connections.

The works will comprise the provision and installation of approximately twenty gantries, including foundations and associated maintenance lay-bys. The gantries will support ITS equipment and direction signing. Associated with the gantries is the provision of hard landscaping, ducting, cabling and carriageway traffic detectors.

Additionally, the works will comprise the installation, testing and initial commissioning of the ITS equipment provided by the Scottish Ministers. The contract will also include the upgrading of the M90 southbound hard shoulder between Junction 3 and Junction 1, and may include associated pavement works over this length.

The contract is a fixed price lump sum design and build bespoke contract based on the FIDIC Conditions of Contract for EPC / Turnkey Contracts (“Silver Book”) as a platform, with payment by installments on interim indicators based on competed milestones.

The procurement competition was conducted under the competitive dialogue procedure. The Contract Notice was published in the OJEU on the 1 July 2010. Subsequently, on 13 August 2010 prequalification submissions were received from 5 prospective bidders. The top four submissions were determined following on an assessment of each applicant financial and technical capabilities.

• Forthspan (comprising Balfour Beatty, BAM Nuttal, Morgan Sindall and MT Hojgaard)
• John Graham (Dromore) Ltd
• Sir Robert McAlpine and Costain JV
• Morrison Construction

The above four were invited to Competitive Dialogue on 19 November 2010. However, Morrison Construction decided to withdraw from the competition reducing the total number of participants to three. Invitations to submit final tenders were issued on the 25 February 2011.

Three tenders were received on 25 March 2011 and following a tender evaluation it was determined that John Graham (Dromore) Ltd had the most economically advantageous tender and were awarded the contract with a final tender total of £12.6m.