Published date: 14 September 2021

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


Closing: 23 July 2021, 7pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£121,301.44

Procurement reference

tender_245246/997175

Published date

14 September 2021

Closing date

23 July 2021

Closing time

7pm

Contract start date

9 September 2021

Contract end date

31 March 2022

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?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Highways England is currently undertaking a programme of improvements to Variable Speed Limits (VSLs) on the motorway and all-purpose trunk road network. This is to improve the appropriateness of both mandatory and advisory VSLs, based on safety and customer insight.

There are occasions when our algorithms and signal sequencing rules automatically set default variable speed limits that are thought to be overly restrictive. For the most part, these algorithms set appropriate speed limits to suit most situations, but there are some situations where it is believed that being able to manually increase the speed limits would be of benefit to our customers.

For example, whenever a Red X is set, an associated speed limit of 40mph is also set. There may be some situations where a 50mph may be suitable, but Regional Operation Centre (ROCs) Operators are unable to apply human intervention; they cannot overrule default system settings to safely raise a speed limit. At present operators are only able to manually decrease auto generated variable speed limits.

Highways England is seeking to procure technical consultancy services that will explore and assess the feasibility of safely allowing Operators within the ROCs to dynamically alter the auto-generated speed restrictions that're set by the pre-programmed signalling algorithms and system software rules.

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Award information

Awarded date

9 September 2021

Contract start date

9 September 2021

Contract end date

31 March 2022

Total value of contract

£121,301.44

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Atkins Jacobs Joint Venture

Address

London

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

The Cube, Wharfside Street,
Birmingham
B1 1RN
England

Email

SPaTS2@highwaysengland.co.uk