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Bidding opens for £85m installation framework

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Bidding has opened for an £85 million four-year installation and minor works framework for the Medical Research Council (MRC).

Credit: Logan Gutierrez

The MRC is seeking contractors for its  campuses in London, Oxford, and Cambridge.

The MRC intends to engage with potential contractors through a Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) event and subsequent PME activities.

The MRC supports world-leading medical research across the biomedical spectrum, from fundamental lab-based science to clinical trials, and in all major disease areas.

The framework runs from September 2025 to August 2029, with the MRC’s  estate transformation aimed at establishing “world-leading” scientific research centres, and achieve a carbon-neutral status by 2040.

To achieve this, MRC requires an installations and minor works that can support a range of projects at:

  • MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, London
  • MRC Harwell site, Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire
  • MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge

The following Installations and Minor Works projects are expected to be part of the framework requirements:

  • Design/Installation/Replacement of scientific equipment and associated works: e.g. individually vented caging systems, autoclaves, and reverse osmosis systems
  • Demolition Works
  • Building Enclosure Works: e.g. roof repairs
  • Building Interiors: 
    • e.g. building fabric upgrade works 
  • Decarbonisation Works: 
    • e.g. photovoltaic panels, solar canopies, boiler replacements
  • Building Services Works: 
    • e.g. CCTV, air conditioning units, chillers, lighting, and building management systems works 

SME contractors are welcome to tender for this project.

Bidders have until 03 March 2025,  for more information click here.

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