Published date: 19 November 2019

Last edited date: 19 November 2019

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.


Closing: 31 January 2021

Contract summary

Industry

  • Closed-circuit television cameras - 32234000

  • Telecommunications equipment and supplies - 32500000

  • Toll equipment - 34927000

    • Traffic-monitoring equipment - 34970000

    • Transport tickets - 34980000

    • Installation of traffic monitoring equipment - 45316210

    • Software package and information systems - 48000000

    • Highway toll services - 63712210

    • Bridge toll services - 63712311

    • Tunnel toll services - 63712321

    • Parking services - 63712400

    • Traffic control services - 63712700

    • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

    • Data management services - 72322000

    • Customer services - 79342300

    • Collection agency services - 79940000

    • Toll-collection services - 79941000

    • Parking enforcement services - 98351110

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£90,000,000 to £150,000,000

Procurement reference

tender_205996/795569

Published date

19 November 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 Road User Charging Services (Package A) as part of the overall free-flow charging service solution, and comprises of vehicle identification, account management, payment processing, and customer services.

Interested parties should refer to the Contract Notice (https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:411144-2019:TEXT:EN:HTML) for further information.

5 Economic Operators have pre-qualified and will be taken forward to the next phase of this procurement exercise. The 5 Economic Operators are as follows:
- Ascendi O & M / EFKON
- Conduent Parking Enforcement Solutions
- Egis Projects / SICE
- Emovis Operations Leeds
- VINCI Highways

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Free-Flow Charging Package A: Road User Charging Services

  • Early engagement
  • Published 16 July 2019, last edited 16 July 2019

Links

About the buyer

Contact name

Highways England (on behalf of Department for Transport)

Address

Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Rd
London
SW1P 4DR
England

Email

TechnologyProcurement@highwaysengland.co.uk