# Post Excavation Services

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by HS2.

## Key facts

- Buyer: [HS2](/buyers/hs2/contract-awards)
- Supplier: [Headland Archaeology \(UK\) Ltd](/suppliers/headland-archaeology-uk/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £32,465,418
- Tender value: £55,000,000
- Award date: 12 September 2024
- Published: 13 September 2024
- Contract start: 16 September 2024
- Contract end: 15 September 2030
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 58c843c7-ac9a-4cea-8dcd-20600b8d3a06-785282
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-96ee0974-5a4d-49dc-8783-b2a000bbd677

## Description

The Post Excavation Services Contract has been awarded to Headland Archaeology \(UK\) Ltd to deliver the final stages of historic environment investigation\. The HS2 Project presents an unprecedented opportunity to explore the country's past, through the UK's largest ever linear infrastructure project\. The appointed Supplier will provide historic environment and project management expertise to deliver HS2's end-to-end post-excavation programme, including the analysis, dissemination, publication and archiving of HS2's historic environment assets from along the line of route\. In procuring this contract HS2 Ltd is delivering commitments made by the Secretary of State for Transport with regard to historic environment, through a programme of post-excavation that provides public benefit and realises HS2's archaeological legacy\. The key contract objectives are to enhance knowledge by: - contributing to key questions about prehistory and history; - testing interpretative concepts and methodological techniques; and - challenging the way that the historic environment we investigate and interpret the past\. The contract has been awarded for an initial period of 72 months, which the option to extend for a further 72 months via single or multiple fixed terms, at the sole discretion of HS2 Ltd\. The contract dates published in this notice relate to the initial contract term only\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/58c843c7-ac9a-4cea-8dcd-20600b8d3a06-785282)