Contract award · 27 May 2026

S30088 Delivery of the 15-Year Plan across National Highways (2026- 2029)

National Highways Limited awarded “Delivery of the 15-Year Plan across National Highways (2026- 2029)” to Ove Arup and Partners Limited for £1.24m.

Research & developmentWest Midlands

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Key facts

Buyer
National Highways Limited · National or federal agency/office
Value
£1,242,008.02
Procedure
Call-off from a framework agreement
Sector
Research & development · Development consultancy services (CPV 73220000)
Timeline
  1. Contract date27 May 2026
  2. Published28 May 2026Published 1 day after the contract date

Description

In May 2025, the National Highways' Board and Executive agreed the need for a 15-year Plan. The purpose of the 15-year Plan is to inform our medium-term planning across multiple Road Investment Strategies (RIS) periods for the company, delivering our 2050 vision, as outlined in Connecting the Country published May 2023, and linking long-term ambitions to business planning. Since May 2025, the 15-year Plan has been developed with senior leaders and their teams to be launched internally alongside the RIS3 Strategic Business Plan and Delivery Plan in spring 2026. It will be further developed post launch with a greater evidence base and embedded in the RIS4 SRN Initial Report and Strategic Business Plan in spring 2027/28 and 2028/29 respectively. It covers RIS3, RIS4 and RIS5 to 2041 and sets out our Plan to respond to our future challenges of increased demand, ageing assets, climate impacts and changing customer travel patterns. It drives National Highways to deliver differently; leverag…

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