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# Area 3 Maintenance & Response (M&R) Contract 2021

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/area-3-maintenance-response-m-r-contract-2021-ocds-h6vhtk-0585b2). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** National Highways Limited: "Area 3 Maintenance & Response (M&R) Contract 2021". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [National Highways Limited](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/national-highways-limited-gov-ot1346)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** works
- **Classifications (CPV):** Bridge and tunnel operation services, Construction work for highways, Electrical installation work, Engineering services, Highway maintenance work (+10 more)
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £288,720,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0585b2`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/area-3-maintenance-response-m-r-contract-2021-ocds-h6vhtk-0585b2#tl-md)

## Description
This VEAT Notice relates to a Deed of Variation to a National Highways' Maintenance and Response Contract. This Contract currently provides and undertakes all cyclical and reactive maintenance, incident response, defect rectification and severe weather delivery on the trunk roads and motorways within Hampshire, Surrey, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Dorset, Wiltshire and part of Buckinghamshire (National Highways Area 3) (the "Contract"). Duties also include maintenance of roadside technology, the provision of traffic management for the contractor, maintenance and incident response activities, and traffic management for others who may be working on the network.  
The Contract is due to expire on 31st October 2029 and will be shortened to have a new end date of 5th June 2028, this is in order to align with the procurement process for the next Maintenance & Response contracts.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** Not published
- **CPV codes:** 34923000, 34993100, 45221248, 45233130, 45233140, 45233141
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** The Contract is one of a number of Maintenance & Response contracts which are part of a single procurement programme. For continuity and consistency there is a need for national alignment of the expiry date for all M&R contracts, to enable co-ordinat...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 047878-2025-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Kier Highways Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-COH:05606089`
  - Value: £288,720,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 047878-2025-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £288,720,000
  - Signed Date: 20/05/2021

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F047878-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-08-12T09:04:08.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T06:35:31.505Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0585b2