The M8 M73 M74 project will complete the motorway between Glasgow and Edinburgh by upgrading the A8 Baillieston to Newhouse. It also includes work to improve Raith Interchange and the widening of key sections of the M8, M73 and M74.
The final two bidders left in contention are Connect Roads and Scottish Roads Partnership.
Connect Roads is a consortium of Balfour Beatty, Galliford Try (Morrison) and Carillion.
Scottish Roads Partnership is a consortium of Ferrovial Agroman (Amey) and Lagan.
The two shorltisted bidding groups that failed to make the cut were:
- Scotia Roads Group (BAM PPP PGGM Infrastructure Coöperatie; Costain Engineering & Construction; Iridium Concesiones de Infraestructuras; Sir Robert McAlpine Capital Ventures)
- Caledonia Roads Group (Macquarie Capital Group; Vialia Sociedad Gestora de Concesiones de Infraestructuras; FCC Construcción; John Graham Holdings; John Sisk & Son).
This is the first roads infrastructure scheme to be procured as part of the £2.5bn Scottish government’s revenue funded programme of NPD (non-profit distributing) projects.
Transport Scotland also intends to award a £3.1m groundworks contract to Forkers. The work is expected to be completed in the summer and is the first of a series of advance works planned for the scheme. Full construction is expected to start by the end of this year, with completion by 2017.
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