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
- £607,670,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Construction work · Construction work for highways (CPV 45233130)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 047884-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 Jun 2019
- Published12 Aug 2025Published 2253 days after the contract date
Description
A Design Build Finance Operate (DBFO) contract covers A1(m) Alconbury to Peterborough expires on 31st March 2026 and M40 expires 5th January 2027. 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 which is adjacent geographically. Therefore these roads will be incorporated into this existing Maintenance and Response (M&R) Contract for Area 6&8 of the Strategic Road Network following the award of the Deed of Variation. This together with the need for national alignment of the expiry dates for all of the M&R contracts, ready for their re-procurement, means that the term of the Area 6&8 M&R Contract will be shortened and will have a new end date of 1st July 2029 instead of 30th September 2034. The new estimated total Contract value will be £607,670,000.
About the supplier
Ringway Infrastructure Services Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02756434).