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HS2 has announced the bidders shortlisted for its £3bn London stations contracts.

Five joint ventures and one standalone bidder have been shortlisted across the two deals: Balfour Beatty / Vinci; Bam Nuttall / Ferrovial; Bechtel; Canary Wharf Contractors / MTR / Laing O’Rourke; Costain / Skanska; and Mace / Dragados. The much-coveted £1.65bn Euston deal will…

Arup and WSP have been named as the two firms that will design HS2’s four phase one station projects.

The two engineers have won two design contracts apiece worth a total of £70m. WSP has been chosen to design Birmingham Curzon Street and Old Oak Common, while Arup has scooped Birmingham…

The decision to award Carillion’s HS2 JV two of its civils contracts sent the wrong signals to the supply chain over its financial future, according to a number of subcontractors.

John Axten, managing director of energy management specialist BMSI, which has lost £230,000 in Carillion revenue, told Construction News the awarding of…

HS2 has invited construction firms to bid on £1.9bn’s-worth of work for two sections of the £55.7bn high-speed line.

Bidding is now open for companies to deliver the track power, M&E and tunnel ventilation works on phase one from London to Birmingham and phase 2a from Birmingham to Crewe. The £1.55bn power…

Kier has taken on approximately 200 Carillion staff on HS2 and Highways England joint ventures.

Carillion was part of the CEK JV with Kier and French contractor Eiffage to deliver two civils packages worth £1.4bn for HS2. In the wake of Carillion’s collapse last Monday, Kier and Eiffage will now split…

Transport secretary Chris Grayling has claimed it would have been “illegal” to prevent Carillion’s HS2 joint venture from winning work, despite the financial issues at the failed contractor.

Mr Grayling told ITV that there was no “legal reason” to stop Carillion’s joint venture from winning contracts on HS2 just weeks after…

Carillion’s HS2 partners have contingency plans in place following the contractor’s collapse, the boss of Kier has revealed.

Kier chief executive Haydn Mursell (pictured), whose firm is part of the CEK JV on HS2 alongside Carillion and Eiffage, said there were a “number of options” available to the joint venture –…

Highways England commercial boss David Poole has joined HS2 as its new procurement and supply director.

Mr Poole, who has spent nearly five years as Highways England’s director of commercial and procurement, will join HS2 in mid-March to manage the client’s procurement and supply chain teams. HS2’s procurement and supply chain…

HS2 has moved to avoid another conflict-of-interest scandal by replacing CH2M staff in “key decision-making roles” on contracts held by Jacobs, following the merger between the two firms.

The client revealed it had blocked CH2M staff working for HS2 from taking any part in the procurement of future contracts where Jacobs…

MPs have branded unauthorised redundancy payments made by HS2 as a “shocking waste of taxpayers’ money”. 

A stinging report from the public accounts committee, published today, claimed the unauthorised schemes were the result of “weak internal processes” at HS2 which “prevented key decision-making and scrutiny bodies from receiving accurate information”. HS2…