Published date: 5 February 2021

Last edited date: 11 February 2021

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: 8 March 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Highway materials - 34929000

  • Road-maintenance materials - 44113900

  • Winter-maintenance materials - 44113910

    • Construction, foundation and surface works for highways, roads - 45233000

    • Public road transport services - 60112000

    • Special-purpose road passenger-transport services - 60130000

    • Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver - 60170000

    • Highways consultancy services - 71311210

    • Highways engineering services - 71311220

    • Integrated engineering services - 71340000

    • Street-cleaning and sweeping services - 90610000

    • Snow-clearing services - 90620000

    • Gully cleaning and emptying services - 90640000

Location of contract

East Midlands

Value of contract

£595,000,000 to £1,200,000,000

Procurement reference

LGSS001-DN418770-30914524

Published date

5 February 2021

Closing date

8 March 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 April 2022

Contract end date

31 March 2029

Contract type

Works

Procedure type

Competitive dialog

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

The tender is split into two Lots covering the existing Northamptonshire County Council area. Lot 1 covers the area of West Northamptonshire comprising the current districts and boroughs of Daventry, Northampton and South Northamptonshire. Lot 2 covers the area of North Northamptonshire comprising the current districts and boroughs of Kettering, Corby, East Northants and Wellingborough. Northamptonshire County Council (NCC) is currently the highway authority, on 1st April 2021, the new unitary authorities of West Northamptonshire (WNC) and North Northamptonshire (NNC) will take over responsibility for these services. NCC is commencing this procurement on behalf of the future WNC and NNC.
Further details can be found in the Descriptive Document.
The objective of the procurement is to appoint a qualified competent service provider/s to deliver high quality value for money highways maintenance and other related services, including potential for design.
This procurement covers the provision of:
• highways asset management;
• highway reactive maintenance and emergency service;
• highway routine maintenance (both revenue and capital);
• traffic signal maintenance;
• severe weather service (including winter service);
• third party liability claims (red & green);
• urban traffic management control;
• highways capital projects design and implementation (minor improvement schemes); and
• highways bridges and structures design and works.
WNC and NNC will also have the option to expand the delivery by the service provider at any time during the contract term to cover a range of other highways and related services.
This procurement does not cover functions relating to street lighting which are delivered through a separate PFI arrangement.
The scope of the service from commencement is anticipated to be an area of dialogue during the process and further details on this are contained within the Descriptive Document.
The procurement will allow for the submission of variant bids as further detailed in the procurement documents.
The contract will operate for a minimum term of seven years with possible scope for extensions up to a maximum of fourteen years from commencement.


About the buyer

Address

One Angel Square
Angel Street
Northampton
NN1 1ED
England

Email

procurement@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Website

https://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/pages/default.aspx