Project managers and QSs are among those needed for a London Underground framework deal expected to last five years.

Tube Lines, the consortium modernising the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines, has asked for tenders from providers of various consultancy services and has released an estimated fee for each service: quantity surveying services (拢30m), architectural services (拢15m), civil and structural design services (拢15m), project management (拢8m), risk and value management services (拢3m) and building surveying and risk and value control services (拢1m).

鈥淲e are putting together a series of suppliers for a range of things we鈥檒l need in the future, including secondment into our company and devising the upgrade programme,鈥� said Laura Wallis, a Tube Lines spokeswoman.

Tubes Lines has a 30-year public-private partnership to maintain and renew infrastructure, including track, trains, signals and stations. Last month it announced a 拢150m spending programme to upgrade 30 stations.

The work will include the upgrade and installation of lifts, new train indicator displays, new floor surfaces, new CCTV and PA systems.

Tube Lines is committed to modernising or refurbishing 97 of the 100 stations under its responsibility by 2010.

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