HS2 draws up plan for Curzon Street safeguards

By Jordan Marshall2020-01-27T06:00:00

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Railway proposes back-up framework to avoid having to retender job again

HS2 will put together a framework of losing bidders for its £570m Curzon Street station job in Birmingham under plans to safeguard itself from having to shell out on possible retendering costs.

The scheme, which is being planned for a site behind the city’s Bull Ring complex and adjacent to the existing Moor Street station, is being tendered for a second time after contractors told the railway last year it was expecting them to take on too much risk.

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