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Asset Delivery (AD) Area 13 Maintenance & Response (M&R) Contract

Construction work for highways
Electrical installation work
Engineering services
+3 more
UK
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: National Highways: "Asset Delivery (AD) Area 13 Maintenance & Response (M&R) Contract". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityNational HighwaysScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
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Published history for National Highways. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
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Competition Density
1Bids / Report
100% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 10 active published awards; 1 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityNational Highways
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published12 Aug 2025, 10:05 BST
Last source update12 Aug 2025, 10:05 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationConstruction work for highways, Electrical installation work, Engineering services, Highway maintenance work, Road-maintenance works, Roadworks
Delivery area
UK
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0585b6
What is being bought
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 Cumbria & Lancashire (National Highways Area 13) (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 variation will add a section of the A69 from the M6 Junction to the County boundary into the Contract which is currently maintained under a Design Build Finance & Operate ("DBFO") contract which is due to expire on 31 March 2026. Consequently the total value of the Contract will increase by approximately 59%. It will also shorten the Contract which will have a new end date of 6 June 2029 instead of 31 March 2032 in order to align with the procurement process for the next Maintenance & Response contracts.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    12 Aug 2025, 10:05 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    12 Aug 2025, 10:05 BST
  3. Buyer information updated
    12 Aug 2025, 10:05 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    Status not published
    Published valueNot published
    The Design Build Finance Operate (DBFO) contract covers Section of A69 to Cumbria/ Northumberland county boundary and is due to expire on 31 March 2026. National Highways therefore must appoint an alternative maintenance contractor and it considers that the scope of these works is already included within this existing Maintenance and Response Contract. Therefore these roads will be incorporated into the existing Maintenance and Response (M&R) Contract for Area 13 of the Strategic Road Network following the award of the Deed of Variation. This together with the need for national alignment of the M&R contracts, ready for their next iteration, means that the term of the Area 13 M&R Contract will be shortened and will have a new end date of 6th June 2029 instead of 31st March 2032. These changes will increase the awarded value from £ 153,000,000 to £ 242,590,000.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    12 Aug 2025, 10:05 BST
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 8 Jun 2017, 00:00 BST · £242,590,000
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Kier Highways Limited
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£242,590,000 · signed 8 Jun 2017, 00:00 BST · active
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

National Highways

Contracting authority GB-FTS-139911
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  • National Highways
    buyer
    reviewBody

    Bridge House, Walnut Tree Close, Guildford, UK, GU1 4LZ
    info@nationalhighways.co.uk
    +44 03001235000

  • Kier Highways Limited
    supplier

    Temsford Hall, Sandy, Bedfordshire, UK, SG19 2BD
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Planning and rationale
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Procedure rationaleThe modifications to the Contract fall within the permissible grounds set out under Regulation 72(1)(e) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in that the modifications are not substantial within the meaning of Regulation 72(8) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 because: The inclusion of Design Build Finance and Operate (DBFO) roads into the Contract and the extension of term does not render the Contract materially different compared to when it was originally procured. The type of work originally required of the Contract (i.e. maintenance and response) is the same as that which it will carry out on the previous DBFO stretches of the Strategic Road Network, it is just a case that the total lane coverage to be maintained under the Contract increases. The original procured value was also £412,040,970 so the increase in value is also within the expectations of the original procurement. The extension of term is to align all M&R Contracts to enable an efficient and consistent re-procurement of the programme. Adding the additional roads and the extension of terms would not have changed the outcome of the original procurement in any way. The Contract will be fully operated in accordance with their current terms and pricing so scores would not have differed and any successful operator would be offered the extension to ensure alignment with the wider M&R procurement programme. Again, the value remains within the original advertised value; As the current Contract will be operated for the new roads on the same terms and pricing, this does not alter the economic balance of the Contract in favour of the contractor. The additional works during the extended term will be on the same pricing; The change does not considerably alter the scope of the Contract as the works and services provided will remain unchanged, the new value is still below the originally advertised value and the roads have been included in this Contract because they are adjacent in terms of geographical scope also; This is not a change in contractor. The Deed of Variation ensures continuity of service on the Strategic Road Network and aligns with National Highways' wider asset delivery and procurement strategy, thereby safeguarding public value and network integrity. The Contract is being shortened to better align with the re-procurement strategy for all Maintenance & Response contracts. It would provide significant technical difficulties and duplication of procurement costs for National Highways to procure a contractor simply for this short stretch of network given the current re-procurement strategy.