M90 Queensferry Crossing Solar Panel Installation

Tender description

The M90 is a trunk road on the south-east unit of Transport Scotland’s trunk road network. BEAR Scotland is the trunk road maintenance Operating company. M90 Queensferry Crossing is located west of Edinburgh City. The M90 trunk road in this area is two-lane motorway carrying up to 75,000 vehicles a day with no footways or cycleways on the bridge. The bridge spans the Firth of Forth, replacing the Forth Road Bridge as the main trunk road crossing on the east coast. Power to the bridge is supplied from both sides with each side having its own substation, power distribution board, uninterrupted power supply and back-up generator. A new solar panel array and battery energy storage system (BESS) to be installed on both the north and south sides of the bridge to reduce the energy consumption from the bridge. The installation will include installing 948no. panels in the north side and 3241no. panels with BESS units, distribution cabinets and extension of the internal abutment control boards. Works also include all associated ducting and cabling pulling between the solar panel locations and the abutments. The Contractor must have demonstrable experience of similar works. The Contractor must also be approved to the applicable sector schemes for these kinds of works.