Wates wins £111m Victoria Tower restoration

Wates has taken the iconic job to restore and carry out fire upgrade work to the Palace of Westminster’s grade I listed Victoria Tower.
The firm secured the project through negotiated tender at a price of £110.6m, after no other competitive bids were submitted in an open re-tender for the historic building upgrade.
The initial contest to restore Parliament’s tallest building got underway in March last year but had to be called off because of a procurement blunder.
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