£10Bn HS2 contracts up for grabs for Scottish businesses

A conference is being held today in Edinburgh to help Scottish businesses compete for over £10Bn worth of contracts related to the HS2 project.

The event will help companies become HS2 ready and provide specific technical information on how to compete for the contracts, including design and construction plus a wide range of other services such as signalling and telecommunications.

So far, over 160 businesses have signed up to attend the conference that will be held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.

Scotland’s engineering industry will be ideally positioned to take advantage of the construction phase of the project when it commences in 2017.

HS2 Ltd Chief Executive, Simon Kirby will be speaking at the event. He commented: “Britain’s high speed rail network is a major, long-term project offering a huge opportunity for Scottish companies to develop the necessary staff and skills base that will position them to bid for the billions of pounds worth of contracts available throughout the supply chain during construction.

“To deliver a project of HS2’s scale and complexity requires the right companies with the right skills. I’m extremely pleased that so many firms across Scotland have signed up to find out more about how they can benefit from this huge UK infrastructure investment.”

UK Transport Minister for HS2 Robert Goodwill will also be attending the event. He said HS2 provided a “fantastic opportunity” for Scottish companies, as it will create “some of the largest value contracts” in the history of construction in the UK, providing job opportunities across the supply chain.

Mr Goodwill said: “With billions of pounds worth of contracts on the table, we hope Scottish businesses will take full advantage of this event, which will set out how firms can compete for work on this vital infrastructure project.”

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