Exclusive: Heavyweight JV beats competition from Jacobs and Arup/Atkins for consultant job
A CH2M and Arcadis joint venture has won the lead consultancy role on the 拢5bn Lower Thames Crossing, 星空传媒 has learned.
Industry sources have told 星空传媒 that a JV comprising CH2M, Arcadis and Danish tunnelling specialist Cowi has been named preferred bidder by Highways England for the project鈥檚 拢200m technical partner role.
The team saw off competition from a Mott MacDonald/Ramboll JV, an Arup/Atkins JV and Jacobs, who was bidding alone.
The technical partner will provide preliminary designs, manage the planning application and help Highways England procure one or more of the scheme鈥檚 main contractors.
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It won the EDP role in a joint venture with Atkins and Spanish engineering firm Sener.
The Lower Thames Crossing is a proposed tunnel, near the existing Dartford Crossing, which would run from the M2 in Kent, crossing the river east of Gravesend and Tilbury, and join the M25 between junctions 29 and 30 in Essex.
The technical partner contract was initially expected to be awarded in January but had been pushed back to coincide with the outcome of a public consultation on the project, which ended on 24 March.
Subject to a development consent order, Highways England is aiming