Published date: 17 April 2020

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


Closing: 5 April 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£249,914

Procurement reference

tender_141474/851035

Published date

17 April 2020

Closing date

5 April 2020

Contract start date

8 April 2020

Contract end date

9 July 2020

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 are looking to set up a contract for the provision of technical assessment to support the Handback process for the eight Tranche 1/1a DBFO Contracts
The Contracts require an Initial Inspection around 5 years from contract expiry and a second inspection around 18 months from contract expiry. The first inspection would require the inspection on site of in excess of 45,000 individual assets within a six-month window. The second inspection would require the inspection of in excess of 250,000 individual assets within a three- month window. This is undeliverable in terms of the network occupancy that would be required and the technical resource to undertake the inspections.
The DBFO Contract Completion Programme team have developed a more efficient Handback process that provides a Residual Life definition for each asset type and a process that makes use of existing asset inspection data to take a risk-based approach to the assessment of the Handback requirements. This is aimed at reducing the number of inspections to less than 10% of that previously required. Other benefits are the significant reduction in network occupancy requirements during RIS2 and the health & safety benefits of not carrying out onsite inspections. An early start on the Handback assessment will begin in April 2020.

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Award information

Awarded date

8 April 2020

Contract start date

8 April 2020

Contract end date

9 July 2020

Total value of contract

£249,914.25

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

WSP

Address

London

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

The Cube
Birmingham
B1 1RN
England

Email

SPATS_Framework_Lot1@highwaysengland.co.uk