CH2M jumped before they were pushed, Grayling tells HS2 probe

Consultant CH2M’s decision to walk away from a £170m development partner contract for phase 2B of HS2 was the focus of a special House of Commons transport committee meeting last week.

Andrew Forster

28 April 2017

Higgins: a former HS2 Ltd employee should not have been involved in CH2M’s bid

Original source: An interim analysis of Cycle City Ambition schemes by Transport for Quality of Life, DfT, December 2016

US engineering giant CH2M announced at the end of March that it was withdrawing from the running for the £170m contract to serve as the Government’s development partner for HS2 phase 2B (Crewe to Manchester, and West Midlands to Yorkshire) (LTT 31 Mar).

CH2M had already performed the role for phase one of HS2 (London to the West Midlands), and in February it was named preferred bidder by HS2 Ltd for the 2B contract. That prompted Mace, one of the other shortlisted...