A9 Dualling Programme suppliers and contractors: EIR release

Information requested

A list of suppliers, contractors and professional service providers involved in the delivery of the A9 Dualling Programme.

For each company, please include where possible:

• Company name
• Role or discipline (e.g. architect, main contractor, M&E consultant)
• Procurement route used (if available)

Response

As the information you have requested is ‘environmental information’ for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations.

It might be helpful to note that we have already provided some of the requested information on 16 August 2024 (case ref 202400423050). Please see the below link to our previous response: Contractors, subcontractors and suppliers involved with A9 dualling project: EIR release - gov.scot

Under regulation 6(1)(b) of the EIRs, we do not have to give you information which is already publicly available and easily accessible to you in another form or format.

Please note that the supplier TMP Worldwide t/a PeopleScout Ltd referenced as part of a previous release has now been replaced in its role by Penna PLC.

It should also be noted that not all of the contractors, subcontractors and consultants listed will have active contracts with Transport Scotland or its contractors/ technical advisors.

Whilst our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance Transport Scotland does not have some of the information you have requested. We do not hold this information as not all of the sections of the A9 Dualling scheme are in construction or have been put out for tender. Under the terms of the exception at regulation 10(4)(a) of the EIRs (information not held), Transport Scotland is not required to provide information which it does not have.

This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption. While we recognise there may be some public interest in who will be involved in construction on the A9 Dualling project, clearly we cannot provide information which we do not hold.

With regard to your request for the procurement route used for suppliers, contractors, and professional service providers involved in the delivery of the A9 Dualling Programme, I can confirm that where Transport Scotland has awarded a contract, a contract notice is published on the Public Contracts Scotland procurement portal. This portal can be accessed at the following link: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/.

For suppliers, contractors, and professional service providers employed by our contractors or technical advisors, there is no requirement in the contract to hold information in relation to suppliers procurement route. Therefore, whilst our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance Transport Scotland does not have the information you have requested. Please refer to exception at regulation 10(4)(a) of the EIRs (information not held) text above. While we recognise there may be some public interest in procurement route for suppliers, contractors, and professional service providers employed by our contractors or technical advisors clearly we cannot provide information which we do not hold.

Please see below a list of those additional contractors, subcontractors and consultants for the A9 Dualling Programme since 16 August 2024:

A9 Dualling Programme: Tomatin to Moy

The following subcontractors have been employed by Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Limited on the A9 Dualling: Tomatin to Moy project.

Subcontractors	Appointed for
A&I Geotechnical Limited	Dynamic Sampling Borehole Works
AOC Archaeology Group Limited	Archaeological Works
Beattie FRC Limited	Labour Only Formwork, Reinforcement and Concrete Works
Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services UK Limited	Duct Support Scaffold Works
Contraflow Limited	Traffic Management
Drummond Black Consulting Limited	Road Safety Auditor
Ellendale Environmental Limited	ECoW Works
Enviraz (Scotland) Limited	Asbestos Removal Works
Fairhurst Group LLP	Temporary Works Design and Checking Services
Findhorn, Nairn & Lossie Rivers Trust	Electrofishing Works
George A Walker Limited	BT Diversion Fencing
George Beattie & Sons Limited	Moy Rail Bridge Demolition Works
Hatton Traffic Management Limited	Scheme Signboards
LB Foundations Limited	Temporary Sheet Piling Works
Leiths (Scotland) Limited	Temporary and Initial Surfacing Works
MB Productions Limited	Webcam & Timelapse Photography Works
MHB Consultants Limited	Temporary Works Design - Moy Rail Bridge and Culvert 20
Mott MacDonald Limited	Design Works
MW Groundworks Limited	Site Clearance Works
Onsite Central Limited	Lynebeg Pond – Temporary Dam
Ove Arup & Partners Limited	Checker
Pegasus Power & Communications Limited	ITS Works
RJT Excavations Limited	Earthworks
Robyn Woolston	Art Installation Artist
Structural Soils Limited	Supplementary Ground Investigation Works
UB Civils Limited	Compound Establishment Works
Vantage Images	Aerial and Ground Progress Photography Works
Water & Pipeline Services Limited	Directional Drilling Works
William Houston	Soft Landscaping Works

A9 Dualling: Pass of Birnam to Tay Crossing

The following suppliers have been employed by Transport Scotland on the A9 Dualling: Pass of Birnam to Tay Crossing project.

Supplier	Role
Headland Archaeology Ltd	Archaeological investigation
RPS Consulting Limited	Environmental Auditor
Systra Limited	Traffic and Economic Auditor

The following suppliers have been employed by Transport Scotland’s technical advisors Jacobs UK Limited on the A9 Dualling: Pass of Birnam to Tay Crossing project.

Supplier	Role
Birnam I Ltd	Hall/Meeting room hiring for public exhibitions
Capital Value and Risk Limited	Risk Workshop facilitation
Glasgow Caledonian University	GCU Prof Lennon Tourism Services for A9 Dualling
Matrix Traffic and Transport Data Ltd	Traffic – installation of five Automatic Traffic Counters on Perth Road
Nicoll Russell Studios Limited	Architectural consultancy services
Stewart Paton Associates Limited	Road Safety Auditor

A9 Dualling: Tay Crossing to Ballinluig

The following Contractors have been employed by Transport Scotland on the A9 Dualling: Tay Crossing to Ballinluig project.

Contractor	Role
Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd	Main Works contractor
Business Stream	Monitor of Private Water Supplies
Rubicon Archaeology Limited	Archaeology Investigation
Soil Engineering Geoservices Limited	Ground Investigation

The following suppliers have been employed by Transport Scotland’s technical advisors Jacobs UK Limited on the A9 Dualling: Tay Crossing to Ballinluig project.

Supplier	Role
Bluesky International Ltd	Enhanced accuracy LiDAR survey for archaeological / ecological investigations
Environmental Monitoring Solutions Ltd	Monitoring services
Nicoll Russell Studios Limited	Architectural Services Guay Farmhouse and Tulliemet

A9 Dualling: Pitlochry to Killiecrankie

The following suppliers have been employed by Transport Scotland’s technical advisors Jacobs UK Limited on the A9 Dualling: Pitlochry to Killiecrankie project.

Supplier	Role
Direct Ecology Ltd	Bat emergence surveys of structures
Echoes Ecology Ltd	Bat emergence surveys of buildings and structures & Tree Climbing/Ground inspections for presence of bat roosts
Environmental Monitoring Solutions Ltd	Monitoring services
Nature Metrics Ltd	Laboratory services

A9 Dualling: Killiecrankie to Glen Garry

The following suppliers have been employed by Transport Scotland’s technical advisors Jacobs UK Limited on the A9 Dualling: Killiecrankie to Glen Garry project.

Subcontractor	Role
Environmental Monitoring Solutions Ltd	Monitoring services
Nature Metrics Ltd	Sampling analysis
Survey Supplies Limited	Mobile Mapping of carriageway and rock slopes

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