Published date: 9 December 2019
Last edited date: 22 January 2020
Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.
Contract summary
Industry
Transport tickets - 34980000
Software package and information systems - 48000000
Highway toll services - 63712210
Bridge toll services - 63712311
Tunnel toll services - 63712321
Parking services - 63712400
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000
Data management services - 72322000
Accounting services - 79211000
Customer services - 79342300
Collection agency services - 79940000
Toll-collection services - 79941000
Parking enforcement services - 98351110
Location of contract
Any region
Value of contract
£70,000,000 to £120,000,000
Procurement reference
tender_205996/802922
Published date
9 December 2019
Closing date
31 January 2021
Contract start date
1 February 2021
Contract end date
1 August 2031
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Competitive procedure with negotiation (above threshold)
Anyone may ask to participate, but only those who are pre-selected will be invited to submit initial tenders and to negotiate.
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
Highways England is the government company charged with operating, maintaining and improving motorways and major (trunk) roads in England.
Highways England is procuring (as a procurement agent on behalf of the Secretary of State for Transport, as described in the Highways England framework document annex C paragraph 2) a second generation free-flow charging service solution for the existing Dartford-Thurrock River Crossing road user charging scheme. A road user charge has been collected at this crossing since 2003 to manage the high demand for its use. Any solution is expected to offer proportionate scalability where systems and operations can deal with alternative charging schemes.
This Contracts Finder notice is for UK Enforcement Services as part of the overall free-flow charging service solution, and comprises of managing enforcement activities for vehicles registered in the UK including penalty charge payment processing and customer services.
Interested parties should refer to the Contract Notice (https://ted.europa.eu/TED/notice/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:464283-2019:TEXT:EN:HTML) for further information.
5 Economic Operators were pre-qualified and taken forward to the next phase of this procurement exercise. The 3 Economic Operators remaining are:
- Conduent Parking Enforcement Solutions
- Egis Projects / Imperial Civil Enforcement Services
- Emovis Operations Leeds
More information
Previous notice about this procurement
Free-Flow Charging Package B: UK Enforcement Services and Package C: Non-UK Enforcement Services
- Early engagement
- Published 17 July 2019
Links
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- https://ted.europa.eu/TED/notice/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:464283-2019:TEXT:EN:HTML
- Tender notice
- Contract Notice
About the buyer
Contact name
Highways England (on behalf of Department for Transport)
Address
Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Rd
London
SW1P 4DR
England
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Closing: 31 January 2021