Lancashire County Council has gone out to tender with a contract for ground investigation services worth an estimated £1.6 million.
The Council is looking to put a framework agreement in place for the provision of ground investigation services and associated works.
The ground investigation work includes boreholes, soil sampling and testing, factual and interpretative reporting.
The agreement will be used to carry out site investigations for new highway schemes, existing highway maintenance schemes, new Council buildings including new school developments and the potential treatment of mineshafts and shallow mine workings.
The investigation works will cover hand excavated trial pits, cable percussion boreholes, rotary open hole and core drilling, dynamic probing, environmental probing, road pavement and structural coring. Sampling will be required, together with the production of borehole logs and factual reports, where required.
The contract is being tendered in two separate Lots. The Council is looking to appoint up to five suppliers to the framework agreement, which will run for up to four years.
Time limit for receipt of projects or requests to participate is 20th April 2021- click here to access the tender documentation.
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