Invitation to Tender for Cantick Head Road Access Improvements

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        "name": "Graham Allan",
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    "description": "Description of Works\nCantick Head Lighthouse is accessed via a privately owned, single-track, unsurfaced road located beyond the end of the B9047 public road on South Walls, Orkney. The road provides the only vehicular route to the lighthouse and adjacent residential properties. The site is operational, with mains power and road access.\nThe road has deteriorated significantly over time due to weathering and lack of maintenance. It has now reached a condition that has been deemed unsuitable for safe vehicle passage. Notably, the Scottish Ambulance Service has recently advised that the road is currently impassable for their vehicles, posing a significant risk to nearby residents.\nThis project represents a targeted civil works intervention to regulate and resurface the road from the lighthouse to the mound, including the lighthouse dwelling driveway. These works are intended to ensure long-term vehicular access and address a pressing health and safety concern.\nThe works include surface regulation, overlay with a new asphalt layer, and necessary site mobilisation and clearance. It is a one-off project intended to improve safety, meet legal maintenance obligations, and reduce the risk of emergency vehicle inaccessibility.\nThe contract will include:\n\u2022Mobilisation and establishment of any temporary site facilities required\n\u2022Regulation of the existing road surface using imported material where necessary\n\u2022Laying of a new 50mm AC14 bituminous surface layer across the access road (width not exceeding 3m)\n\u2022Resurfacing of the lighthouse dwelling driveway area\n\u2022Final site clearance and reinstatement\nProgramme\nThe contractor must submit a works programme, at tender stage with proposed start dates for the sequence of works within this project. It is anticipated that the programme of scheduled works for this project will start on 1 December 2025, with an expected duration of 3 weeks, completing by 19 December 2025. A more detailed programme of work will be agreed between the NLB and the successful contractor.\nFor more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: \nhttps://nlb.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Edinburgh:-Road-maintenance-works./9F65YC5M38\nTo respond to this opportunity, please click here: \nhttps://nlb.delta-esourcing.com/respond/9F65YC5M38",
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