Section one: Contracting authority/entity
one.1) Name and addresses
Kent County Council
Sessions House
Maidstone
ME14 1XQ
Contact
Miss Laura Garay
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UKJ4 - Kent
Internet address(es)
Main address
Buyer's address
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
SC250102 - Bean Road Tunnel
Reference number
DN742811
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 45220000 - Engineering works and construction works
two.1.3) Type of contract
Works
two.1.4) Short description
Kent County Council (KCC) is the largest local authority in England covering an area
of 3,500 square kilometres. It has an annual expenditure of over £1bn on goods and services
and a population of 1.6m. The Council provides a wide range of personal and strategic
services on behalf of its residents, operating in partnership with the NHS Kent and Medway
Clinical Commissioning Group, 12 district councils, and 289 parish/town councils. KCC
consists of four directorates:
- Adult Social Care and Health;
- Children, Young People and Education;
- Growth, Environment and Transport; and
- Strategic and Corporate Services.
This service is being commissioned on behalf of the Growth, Environment and Transport
directorate.
The scheme requires the construction of a new tunnel on the Bead Road in Kent. Fastrack
Bean Road Tunnel is broadly a new 75m long tunnel (technically an underpass due to short
length) through the chalk spine under the B255 Bean Road between Whitecliffe (former
Eastern Quarry) and Bluewater Shopping Centre, serving to directly connect the shopping
centre to the new Whitecliffe development and Ebbsfleet International Railway Station. It will form part of the Fastrack bus rapid transit system within Kent Thameside. The tunnel will
house a 3.5m wide Bi-directional Fastrack busway linking Whitecliffe and Bluewater, as well
as providing a combined footway / cycleway and footway linking the Whitecliffe and
Bluewater as part of the Ebbsfleet Garden City green corridor network.
Project value is £25.5m with construction cost budget of circa. £20.43m
Section six. Complementary information
six.6) Original notice reference
Notice number: 2024/S 000-029734
Section seven. Changes
seven.1.2) Text to be corrected in the original notice
Section number
IV.2.2
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Date
17 October 2024
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12:00pm
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Date
25 October 2024
Local time
12:00pm