Competition with a shortlist
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Key facts
- Buyer
- National Highways Limited · National or federal agency/office
- Supplier
- Ove Arup Limited
- Value
- £599,190.97
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Research & development · Development consultancy services (CPV 73220000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 May 2026
- Published14 May 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
National Highways commissions skid resistance and other routine surveys to provide data on pavement condition. These data are used to inform maintenance decisions and to report on the condition of the network through KPI 3.1 (Pavement Condition). This project will facilitate the use and interpretation of skid resistance data and improvements to relevant standards. This includes assessing trends in skid resistance and producing the correction factors (LECFs) to reduce the influence of seasonal variation on skid resistance data. The production of LECFs is described in CS 228. The project will also maintain and update the Machine Survey Pre-processor (MSP) tool that is used by our supply chain to process data from surface and structural condition surveys into a format that is suitable to be loaded into P-AMS, where it is made available to users.
About the supplier
Ove Arup Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 09938540).