The procurement procedure has officially began for the 5th A9 dualling programme contract – the 6.4km stretch between Pitlochry and Killiecrankie.
A freelance understand printed by means of Delivery Scotland notified contractors and their provide chains of the £205m contract alternative (at present costs), which is predicted to be awarded in autumn 2026.
The estimated general scheme value for preparation, procurement and development of the 6.4km mission is £296m at April 2023 costs. Jacobs is doing the design paintings.
The mission would be the 3rd of the A9 dualling contract to be delivered the usage of Delivery Scotland’s amended type of NEC4 Engineering and Development contract, which is reckoned to have a extra balanced proportion of chance.
It’s expected that by means of the top of 2030, when dualling for this segment is predicted to be operational, virtually 50% of the A9 between Perth and Inverness will probably be dualled.
Fiona Hyslop, delivery secretary within the Scottish govt, stated: “This information demonstrates the momentum development now to twin the A9 between Perth and Inverness. We’re handing over at the commitments set in our supply plan specified by 2023 and this 12 months we’re in reality seeing paintings ramp up and with an additional key milestone anticipated to be delivered later this 12 months on using the mutual funding style (MIM) for the rest sections of A9 dualling. We can proceed to reach what we set out in 2023 to ship a more secure A9 for Scotland.”
The Pitlochry to Killiecrankie contract comes to development or upgrading 9 bridges, together with a brand new crossing of the River Tummel along the prevailing Tummel Bridge, a brand new bridge along the prevailing Clunie Bridge over Loch Faskally, and a brand new rail bridge over the Highland Mainline Railway. The segment additionally contains provision for protected strolling and wheeling crossing issues and progressed get admission to for non-motorised consumer go back and forth routes together with the Rob Roy Means.
The newsletter of the awareness comes simply after the Scottish govt introduced its purpose to award the contract for the neighbouring segment between Tay Crossing and Ballinluig to Wills Bros Civil Engineering. [See previous report here.]
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