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Highways England

Area 3 Maintenance and Response Contract

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Value£203.6m
Awarded22 Dec 2020
Published14 Jun 2021
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£203.6mtotal contract value
median £102k
this tender£0£219.9m

This is a large award for Transport Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 15,368 valued Transport Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Highways England has appointed a contractor to provide and undertake all cyclical and routine maintenance, incident response, defect rectification and severe weather delivery on the all-purpose trunk roads and motorways within Hampshire, Surrey, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, part of Dorset and part of Buckinghamshire, not including the M25, (Highways England Area 3).

Duties will also include maintenance of roadside technology, the provision of traffic management for the contractor's maintenance and incident response activities (including traffic management for others), where instructed by Highways England and the maintenance of depots.

Under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 the contractor will be Principal Contractor for all work they undertake and where/if instructed otherwise by Highways England.

Highways England may consider amending the duties listed above as appropriate during the contract period.

The Service Period for the Maintenance and Response contract is for a duration of 8 years with an additional 6 months mobilisation period from 21 May 2021 to 31 October 2021.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 the contractor will be Principal Contractor for all work they undertake and where/if instructed otherwise by Highways England.

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OCID
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Stage
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