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
- Southampton City Council · Regional or local authority
- Value
- £60,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Vehicles & transport equipment · Road signs (CPV 34992200)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 064713-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date30 Sep 2025
- Published13 Oct 2025Published 13 days after the contract date
Description
This notice concerns the functions associated with highways related services including the management, maintenance and operation of the city's highway network and structures for which the Council is responsible in its capacity as Highways Authority. The services to be provided will include: • Highway-related safety inspections, improvement and routine maintenance • Highway asset and inventory management functions • Highway and transport capital projects • Highway and transport scheme design and delivery • Winter monitoring and gritting service • Network (traffic) monitoring, management and maintenance of activity on the highway including events and works • Third party insurance claims management • Highway-related customer services • Highway-related professional services • Highway incident response and out of hours service • Management, inspections, maintenance and investment of highways structures (including bridges and associated infrastructure, foot bridges, highways culverts and su…
About the supplier
Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Limited (BBCE): every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00395826).