Project managers and QSs are among those needed for a London Underground framework deal expected to last five years.

Tube Lines, the consortium modernising the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines, has asked for tenders from providers of various consultancy services and has released an estimated fee for each service: quantity surveying services (£30m), architectural services (£15m), civil and structural design services (£15m), project management (£8m), risk and value management services (£3m) and building surveying and risk and value control services (£1m).

“We are putting together a series of suppliers for a range of things we’ll need in the future, including secondment into our company and devising the upgrade programme,” said Laura Wallis, a Tube Lines spokeswoman.

Tubes Lines has a 30-year public-private partnership to maintain and renew infrastructure, including track, trains, signals and stations. Last month it announced a £150m spending programme to upgrade 30 stations.

The work will include the upgrade and installation of lifts, new train indicator displays, new floor surfaces, new CCTV and PA systems.

Tube Lines is committed to modernising or refurbishing 97 of the 100 stations under its responsibility by 2010.

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