Published date: 9 January 2020

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


Closing: 20 December 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£174,257

Procurement reference

tender_141474/827603

Published date

9 January 2020

Closing date

20 December 2019

Contract start date

9 January 2020

Contract end date

31 March 2021

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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Highways England is looking to set up a task for the provision of services to investigate how to improve upon existing performance of our Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic
signalling (MIDAS) System by developing new traffic management algorithms or by better utilising existing data sources.
Algorithm techniques have advanced significantly in recent years and whilst Highways England's existing algorithms are perfectly adequate to perform their duty, as a company we are keen to remain a world leader in traffic management techniques and, with the emergence
of Expressway schemes, explore new approaches to congestion and safety.
Highways England currently use two traffic management algorithms as part of their operation of smart motorways. The congestion management (CM) algorithm seeks to delay the onset of flow breakdown and the queue protection (QP) algorithm seeks to protect queues when network congestion exists. The algorithms ingest traffic data from fixed data collection infrastructure, evaluate conditions and seek to change the traffic conditions on the network by setting signals (variable mandatory speed limits, VMSLs).
The Congestion Management (CM) algorithm is a proactive algorithm: it sets signals in response to high flows, to manage traffic and reduce the occurrences of flow breakdown.

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Award information

Awarded date

9 January 2020

Contract start date

9 January 2020

Contract end date

31 March 2021

Total value of contract

£174,257.94

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Atkins

Address

London

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

HE

Address

2 The Square
Bristol
BS1 6HA
England

Email

Spats_Framework_Lot1@highwaysengland.co.uk