Next week, Crossrail Ltd (formerly Cross London Rail Links) expects to sign a contract worth ￡100m appointing the Transcend joint venture to the critical role of Programme Partner. The members of Transcend are AECOM, CH2M Hill and Nichols Group. The choice of Transcend as preferred bidder was announced on March 11 as Crossrail's Land & Property Director Keith Berryman addressed a conference organised by Railway Gazette International in London. The Programme Partner's role 'is one of strategic programme management' according to Cross-rail, client for the ￡15.9bn project. Transcend will supervise the activities of the Project Delivery Partner, to be appointed shortly ready for the start of major civil engineering work in 2010. The Project Delivery Partner is the lead contractor, responsible to the Programme Partner for co-ordinating the activities of other contractors. A shortlist of fouT bidders was announced on January 13 (RB1334 p7).
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