Framework for losing bidders will act as safety net in case preferred contractor fails to deliver

摘要

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 pay possible retendering costs. The station, which is planned for a site behind the city's Bullring complex and next to Moor Street station, is being tendered for a second time after contractors last year told the railway it was expecting them to take on too much risk. "We were happy to give them a quote [first time around] but we told them it would be a high one," one source told Building.