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ClosedStage · pipeline

Highways England

Maintenance and Response Contract (South East Region) Area 4

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Value£106.5m
Deadline1 Jan 2001
Published20 Dec 2019
RegionSouth East
Timeline
Published 20 Dec 2019ClosedCloses 1 Jan 2001
Contract value in context
£106.5mtotal contract value
median £102k
this tender£0£115.0m

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.

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The brief

Highways England is looking for a suitable contractor to provide and undertake all routine and cyclic maintenance, incident response, defect rectification (when instructed by Highways England) and severe weather delivery on the all-purpose trunk roads and motorways within Highways England South-East Region (Area 4) in accordance to Highways England standards and objectives.

Additional duties will also include the ongoing maintenance of two tunnels (A20 Roundhill & A27 Southwick), maintenance of roadside technology, the provision of traffic management for the contractor's maintenance and response activities (including traffic management) during incidents and where instructed by Highways England and the maintenance of depots.

Under the CDM Regulations 2015 the contractor will be Principal Contractor for all work they undertake unless instructed otherwise by the Service Manager.

Highways England may consider amending the duties listed above and may remove or amend these as appropriate during the contract period.

The Service Period for the maintenance and response contract is for a duration of 8 years, and the successful provider will be expected to operate collaboratively with other service providers and stakeholders in order to achieve Highways England's objectives.

Highways England will be hosting a tender launch event, at a venue to be confirmed (location likely to be in close proximity to Maidstone); date of tender launch is anticipated to be on 14th January 2020.

Expressions of interest are invited (limited to 2 attendees per tenderer) and a further email notification will be issued.

Interested suppliers are requested to email, providing full names and contact details to Area4AssetDeliveryProcurement@highwaysengland.co.uk no later than 10 January 2020.

A briefing note is available via https://highways.bravosolution.co.uk access 'View current opportunities and notices' and locate Maintenance and Response Contract (South East Region) Area 4 (Project_2158) to download the note to view.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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The Service Period for the maintenance

The Service Period for the maintenance and response contract is for a duration of 8 years, and the successful provider will be expected to operate collaboratively with other service providers and stakeholders in order to achieve Highways England's objectives.

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Stage
pipeline · Closed
Source
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