• Taylor Woodrow / BAM Nuttall Joint Venture
• Laing O'Rourke / Batchy Soletanche / Costain Joint Venture
• Balfour Beatty
• Morgan Est

Miles Ashley, Head of LU Station Capacity Programme said:
"We received an excellent response to our request for expressions of interest for the redevelopment of Bond Street Tube station and is a reflection of the construction industry's high level of interest in the Crossrail project. Tenders are due to be issued in late July and it is anticipated that a contract will be awarded in early 2010.

"By 2017, Bond Street station will be served by both London Underground and Crossrail. Work will start in 2010 to increase capacity by creating a new station entrance and ticket hall on the north side of Oxford Street and installing additional escalators and passageways below ground. In addition, the station will be made accessible, with step-free access from the street to all platforms and interchanges."

A separate contract will be let by Crossrail in due course for the construction of the new Crossrail stations at Davies Street and Hanover Square which will connect to the Tube station.

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Notes to editors

The construction cost of redeveloping the Bond Street Tube station is in the region of £150m. The overall cost of the London Underground project at Bond Street is in the region of £300m.

A notice was placed in the Official Journal of the European Union in December 2008 seeking expressions of interest for the main works contract for the redevelopment of Bond Street Tube station. The closing date for expressions of interest was 26 February 2009.

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