Bam Nuttal, Balfour Beatty and Costain among bidders for fit-out of 21km of twin bore tunnels

Bam Nuttal, Laing O’Rourke and Balfour Beatty are among the five bidders for Crossrail’s £400m tunnel fit-out job.

The bidders will compete to fit out 21km of twin tunnels with rail, power lines, 50 ventilation fans, 40km of walkways and 60 drainage pumps.  

The full list of bidders is:

• Alstom Transport / TSO / Costain joint venture
• Balfour Beatty Rail
• BAM Nuttal Ltd / Ferrovial Agroman SA / Kier Construction  joint venture
• Laing O’Rourke Construction / Volker Rail joint venture
• Rhomberg Bahntechnik GmbH / Alpine Bau GmbH / FCC Construction SA joint venture

Andy Mitchell, Crossrail programme director said: “We received significant interest from the rail and construction industry with a large number of responses received. Contract will be awarded in early 2013, providing the chosen contractor with sufficient time to undertake detailed design and planning before fit-out work commences in 2014.”

The winning contractor will be expected to start work at both ends of the tunnels simultaneously

Crossrail trains are expected to be running by 2018.