Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- National Highways Limited · National or federal agency/office
- Supplier
- Ove Arup Limited
- Value
- £499,985.69
- 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 date15 Sep 2026
- Published29 Sep 2026Published 14 days after the contract date
Description
National Highways (NH) is the government-owned company responsible for planning, designing, building, operating, and maintaining England's motorways and major A-roads, known as the Strategic Road Network (SRN). NH's regional teams are reliant on different ways of working to plan, manage, complete and assure their routine maintenance and inspections activities, which has led to inconsistent asset interventions/outcomes being achieved across the SRN. A recent discovery task reviewed the effectiveness of regional approaches and found that they created significant safety, legal, reputational and financial risk to the organisation because they impair NH's ability to make and evidence consistent robust decision-making around the management of assets. The Consistent Maintenance & Inspections Delivery Programme has therefore been commissioned to deliver and embed improvement initiatives to address inconsistencies identified within the operational delivery of maintenance and inspections. …
About the supplier
Ove Arup Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 09938540).