... procurement) is provided. The paper focuses upon the proposals for construction of the new viaduct structures required for the scheme. It also covers the tendering and tender evaluation process for the main contract, and describes the features of the submitted tenders. Sinclair Knight Merz were appointed...

... to minimise whole life costs, namely construction plus maintenance costs, rather than just initial construction costs. Currently there is no standard procedure for evaluating tenders in terms of whole life costs and therefore no way of checking that this recommendation is being fully implemented. This paper...