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National Highways

National Spatial Planning Contract 2026 - UK1

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01/ The notice

Key facts

Value
£81,000,000Estimated value stated in the notice
Deadline (UK time)
Fri 12 Sep 2025, 23:59 BSTClosed.
Published
23 Jul 2025
Region
Not stated

02/ The brief

What the notice says

Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.

Delivery of National Spatial planning contracts from February 2026. Replacing the current NEC 4 Professional Service Contracts tendered in 2020, awarded in 2021 and expiring in February 2026.

The replacement contracts will also be NEC 4 Professional Service Contracts starting in 2026, initially for five years but with the option to extend for a further three years.

The key aim is to deliver contracts to purchase the technical services of consultants to help Spatial Planning Teams review planning applications, local plan documents and supplementary planning documents. This is to help fulfil National Highways obligation as a Statutory Consultee in the planning process. The consultants will provide technical advice across a large number of areas, including but not limited to reviewing transport assessments, reviewing traffic and transport models, undertaking traffic and transport modelling for National Highways, reviewing technical notes from applicants, attending examinations in public on behalf of NH and as an expert witness.

03/ Classification

CPV codes

Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.

  • 79411000

04/ History

Releases of this notice

7 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.

  1. 13 May 2025
    Planning notice

    Planning notice published 13 May 2025.

    Release 020947-2025

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  2. 14 May 2025
    Planning notice

    Planning notice published 14 May 2025. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.

    Release 021305-2025

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  3. 23 Jul 2025
    Tender notice

    Tender notice published 23 July 2025. The source does not state what changed.

    Deadline in this release: Fri 12 Sep 2025, 23:59 BST.

    Release 042492-2025

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  4. 4 Dec 2025
    Notice

    Notice published 4 December 2025. The source does not state what changed.

    Release 079619-2025

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  5. 4 Dec 2025
    Notice

    Notice published 4 December 2025. The source does not state what changed.

    Release 079632-2025

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  6. 4 Dec 2025
    Notice

    Notice published 4 December 2025. The source does not state what changed.

    Release 079687-2025

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  7. 5 Feb 2026
    Award notice

    Award notice published 5 February 2026. The source does not state what changed.

    Release 010333-2026

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05/ Limits

What the source does not tell us

  • None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.

06/ Questions

About this notice

The notice gave a deadline of Friday 12 September 2025, 23:59 BST. It is no longer open for bids.

National Highways published this notice.

Estimated value stated in the notice: £81,000,000.

08/ Related

Where to go next

These links follow a fixed rule applied to this notice’s buyer, text and CPV codes. They are not advice on whether to bid.

Reference
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Source
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Stage
tender · Open
Last verified
Mon 6 Apr 2026, 20:12 BST
Read at
Sat 24 Oct 2026, 01:15 BST

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