Published date: 29 April 2025

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 1 July 2024, 7pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • General management consultancy services - 79411000

Location of contract

North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West

Value of contract

£43,000,000

Procurement reference

tender_342684/1468149

Published date

29 April 2025

Closing date

1 July 2024

Closing time

7pm

Contract start date

2 April 2025

Contract end date

1 April 2028

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure (above threshold)

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The efficiency programme delivery partner contract (originally advertised as the transformation delivery partnership) is a service to help National Highways deliver its efficiency programme in roads period 3. The service will operate from April 2025 to April 2028, with an option to extend until September 2030. The contract value to April 2028 will be £43m with the potential to increase to £75m if the full extension period is utilised.

The efficiency delivery partner contract will help support a centralised programme for delivering change to realise the required efficiency outcomes in National Highways. The contract will challenge, advise, and support National Highways as it develops, implements, embeds and realises the benefits of the programme, whilst leaving a sustainable legacy of change and improved capability throughout the company.

The key objective of the programme is the tangible improvement in National Highways' performance in relation to Six Themes:

1: Integrated and flexible capital delivery

2: Supply chain aligned to new delivery model and NH ambitions

3: Mature asset lifecycle ownership

4: Digitally enabled organisation that delivers on business requirements and customer expectations

5: Proactive control of our network

6: Environmental sustainability deeply embedded in what we do

The programme will be centrally led with the following design principles:

-Led by National Highways employees from across the company, with the efficiency programme delivery partner supporting the activity

-Overseen by one Programme Office coordinating and maintaining the single source of the truth through a single way of working across all themes with a clear governance structure.

-Focussed on truly cross-cutting initiatives that impact across multiple directorates and functional areas of our business

-Building capabilities and ensuring change is fully embedded and sustained becoming business as usual

-A focus on long-term transformation and measurable outcomes rather than short-term cost savings

This efficiency programme is a self-financing model, with a focus on delivering efficiency targets in both capital and operational expenditure within the RIS3 settlement. The investment made will be recovered from the value of efficiencies made through delivering the programme within the 5-year period.

Work under the contract will be issued as tasks with defined deliverables and performance measures. Allocation of future tasks will be predicated on continued good performance. Further details are available in the procurement documents.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Transformation Delivery Partnership

  • Opportunity
  • Published 2 January 2024

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Award information

Awarded date

18 February 2025

Contract start date

2 April 2025

Contract end date

1 April 2028

Total value of contract

£43,000,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

McKinsey & Company, Inc. United Kingdom

Address

The Post Building, 100 Museum Street, London, WC1A 1PB

Reference

Companies House number: FC012665

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

James Mayer

Address

Bridge House, Walnut Tree Close
Guilford
GU1 4LZ
England

Email

James.mayer@nationalhighways.co.uk

Website

https://nationalhighways.co.uk/