Halton Borough Council has published a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union giving a deadline of 14 December for submission of requests to participate.

The project will involve designing, building, financing, maintaining and operating the new tolled crossing of the River Mersey together with associated work.

Halton Borough Council intends to invite a minimum of three candidates to submit tenders, chosen on the basis of the rankings following evaluation of the pre-qualification responses.

Invitations to selected tenderers are due to be sent out on 1 February 2012.

Details can be found on the Official Journal website.