Published date: 25 July 2019

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


Closing: 25 June 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

North West

Value of contract

£2,030,000

Procurement reference

tender_141474/786911

Published date

25 July 2019

Closing date

25 June 2019

Contract start date

22 July 2019

Contract end date

22 July 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

3.1.1. Our key objectives for this work are for the DfT RIS-Client team to have enhanced:

- capability to review business case and programme information from Highways England, so that we are better equipped to ask the right questions, correctly interpret the responses and so secure wider Government support for the project and programmes. This includes understanding of cost estimates/forecasts, delivery schedules and baselines;
- access to specialist technical knowledge and expertise that does not reside within the core team or the wider department, focussed on high risk and complex cases e.g. advice on cost estimation on specific schemes and on technical design and buildability issues, such as tunnelling;
- confidence in project delivery and outcomes. For example, allowing us to assure others in Government that we are comfortable that the broad scale of infrastructure proposed in major schemes is necessary to meet current design standards and traffic forecasts and that all key factors that could bring down costs and enhance the value for money of schemes have been considered;
- practices, principles and templates for its team's oversight of the RIS portfolio and Tier 1 (over £500m) schemes, covering governance planning risk management and change management. This will implement lessons learned since the start of RIS1 and ensure consistency of approach across future changes in the team;
- skills, learning and knowledge to undertake its role. We are looking to the CTS to explain and evidence the reasons for their advice and to assist the team in understanding where similar issues and principles could be applicable in other contexts/schemes.

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Award information

Awarded date

19 July 2019

Contract start date

22 July 2019

Contract end date

22 July 2021

Total value of contract

£2,030,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Arcadis

Address

Manchester

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

The Cube, 199 Wharfside Street
Birmingham
B1 1RN
England

Email

Spats_Framework_Lots_2to6@highwaysengland.co.uk