Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- National Highways · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £405,510,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Construction work · Construction work for highways (CPV 45233130)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 047870-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 Jul 2017
- Published12 Aug 2025Published 2939 days after the contract date
Description
The Design Build Finance Operate (DBFO) contract covers A417/419 and expires on 31st March 2026 and A30/35 expires on 30th September 2026. National Highways therefore must appoint an alternative maintenance contractor and it considers that the scope of these works is already included within this existing Maintenance and Response Contract. Therefore these roads will be incorporated into the existing Maintenance and Response (M&R) Contract for Area 1&2 of the Strategic Road Network following the award of the Deed of Variation. This together with the need for national alignment of the M&R contracts, ready for their next iteration, means that the term of the Area 1&2 M&R Contract will be extended and will have a new end date of 12th June 2028 instead of 30th June 2027. These changes will increase the awarded value from £ 269,610,482 to £ 405,510,000.
About the supplier
Ringway Infrastructure Services Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02756434).