High Speed Two (HS2) Limited (‘HS2 Ltd’) is seeking to procure a Specialist Security Services contract to provide security and maintain the protection of HS2 Ltd’s sites, assets and people.

The appointed Contractor is to provide safe and effective incident management and response, proactive area patrolling, close personal protection and management of locked on protesters. The appointed Contractor is to carry out these operations with minimal impact on the HS2 programme, whilst operating at the highest safety and operational levels to minimise any reputational impact on HS2 Ltd and the HS2 project.

The Contractor is expected to be insight led, with gathering of insight forming a significant part of the contract, the remainder being reactive to incident.

In order to gain access to the PQQ documentation please create a free account on HS2 Ltd’s e-sourcing portal, JAGGAER, by following this link and clicking register - https://hs2.bravosolution.co.uk. If you already have an account, you will not need to register again. Once you have an account you will need to express your interest by emailing the procurement managers James Patterson (james.patterson@hs2.org.uk) and Robert Mercer (robert.mercer@hs2.org.uk) confirming the email address that is linked to your JAGGAER account, you will then be added to the PQQ.

The procurement is for a Contractor to provide the services described in the procurement documents under an amended NEC3 Term Service Contract (Option A and Option E) for an initial period of 5 years with the option to extend, at HS2 Ltd’s sole discretion, for up to a further 2 years via single or multiple fixed term increments. It is envisaged that the total value of the contract will be between 94 515 000 GBP and 150 000 000 GBP with the value being dependent upon service requirement.

Incident management and response, proactive area patrolling, close personal protection and management of locked on protesters is a very specialist service environment and as such a Specialist Security Services Contractor is to be procured to deliver a services contract. The Contractor will carry out the operations safely, effectively and with minimum impact on the HS2 programme, whilst operating at the highest safety and operational levels to minimise the reputational impact on HS2 Ltd and the HS2 project. The Contractor is expected to be insight led, with gathering of insight forming a significant part of the contract, the remainder being reactive to incident.