Contract award · 11 Mar 2026

S30069 Signal Setting Rules Safety Risk Assessment

National Highways Limited awarded “Signal Setting Rules Safety Risk Assessment” to Atkins Jacobs Joint Venture for £125k on 11 Mar 2026.

Research & developmentWest Midlands

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Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.

Key facts

Buyer
National Highways Limited · Body governed by public law
Value
£125,085.44
Procedure
Call-off from a framework agreement
Sector
Research & development · Development consultancy services (CPV 73220000)
Timeline
  1. Contract date11 Mar 2026
  2. Published11 Mar 2026Published the same day

Description

National Highways Connecting the Country vision is that the strategic road network (SRN) is part of a seamlessly integrated transport system that meets our customers' needs by connecting the country safely and reliably, delivering economic prosperity, social value, and a thriving economy. It brings together our existing strategies including Route strategies, Net zero highways, Digital roads and Customer service. Providing consistent signalling to customers is imperative to ensure customer service and deliver safety. This project will seek to provide enhanced customer service whilst maintaining safety risk as low as reasonably practicable. This is a vital part of the set of options to resolve the anomaly with HADECS and MIDAS systems. The scope is to investigate whether the minimum off time of speed signals on the strategic road network could be altered. The SRA will consider the possible new values that could be considered safe and preferably provide a "safe operating range" that the …

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