Published date: 7 April 2022

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


Closing: 14 March 2022, 10am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

  • Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security - 79000000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£100,000

Procurement reference

ORR/CT/21-82

Published date

7 April 2022

Closing date

14 March 2022

Closing time

10am

Contract start date

28 March 2022

Contract end date

31 August 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

ORR independently monitors National Highways' management of the Strategic Road Network (SRN) - motorways and main A roads in England. We monitor National Highways on:
• how it plans and delivers its Road Investment Strategy (RIS) enhancement portfolio;
• its performance, including efficiency, safety and sustainability, for the benefit of road users and the public
• its compliance with its licence.

We also provide advice to the SoS on the development of future RISs.
DfT published RIS2 in March 2020. A significant proportion of the RIS2 investment plan is enhancement projects.

During the first year of the second road period, ORR identified and raised concerns with cost escalation, underspend and schedule delay to some projects in the RIS2 enhancement portfolio.

To help us assess whether National Highways is doing everything reasonably practicable to plan and deliver enhancement projects, to meet its licence obligations and to achieve the committed outputs for RIS2 and beyond, we have commissioned this review.

The review will focus on the review and development of our performance monitoring framework to examine planning, development, delivery, affordability, underspend and management of the RIS2 enhancement projects. The framework will also be used to identify if there is evidence of systemic weaknesses in the organisation's processes. Finally, the consultant will apply the framework to test cases (as agreed with stakeholders) to optimise it.

PLEASE SEE ATTACHMENTS FOR FURTHER DETAILS

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Review the deliverability and affordability of RIS2 Tier 1 projects

  • Opportunity
  • Published 24 February 2022

Attachments

Award information

Awarded date

30 March 2022

Contract start date

30 March 2022

Contract end date

31 August 2022

Total value of contract

£99,718.75

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

THE NICHOLS GROUP LIMITED

Address

7-8 Stratford Place
LONDON
W1C 1AY
GB

Reference

Companies House number: 02930116

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Gayle Webster

Address

25 Cabot Square
London
E14 4QZ
England

Email

gayle.webster@orr.gov.uk