Three picked for £25m Tyne & Wear Metro framework

Three civil engineering contractors have been selected to carry out £25m-worth of embankment and structures work on the Tyne & Wear metro.

Balfour Beatty, Bam Nuttall, and May Gurney will carry out refurbishment and replacement works to bridges, retaining walls, culverts, earthworks and drainage.

The three-year framework deal is worth £8.3m to each contractor.

The contract is one of nine lots tendered this year by the Tyne & Wear Passenger Transport Executive, as part of its £100m Asset Renewal Plan.

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