§ Mr. Alexanderasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list (a) the tenderers for the Newark bypass whose quotations he has rejected and (b) the tender figures offered by each of them.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyThe firms, in alphabetical order, were:
- Balfour Beatty Ltd.
- Cementation Construction Ltd.
- Costain Civil Engineering Ltd.
- Fairclough Civil Engineering Ltd.
- Alfred McAlpine Construction Ltd.
- John Mowlem & Co. Plc.
- Wimpey Construction UK Ltd.
It is the Department's policy not publicly to attribute unsuccessful tender prices to the firms that offered them.
The prices, in ascending order, were:
- £34,977,331.47
- £35,224,724.00
- £35,786,402.79
- £35,817,341.72
- £36,329,677.07
- £36,801,616.86
- £37,449,317.20