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Highway Asset Management Solution

Buyer: Manchester City Council →

BuyerManchester City Council
Statusplanning
DeadlineNot published
Value£600,000
Published21 Apr 2026

What is being bought

Manchester City Council is conducting a preliminary market testing for a Highway Asset Management solution. The engagement will provide insights into the functionality, benefits, and potential applications of the solution. The exercise will assist the Council gather insights in advance of a potential future procurement. Please note this is not a call for competition and Manchester City Council reserves the right not to proceed to procurement. Manchester's Highway Asset Management solution comprises of: o A fully integrated data capture system in respect for various types of highway safety inspections, defect recording and contract management of works to repairs defects. Solution to support the creation, editing and deletion of a highway safety inspection network based on a United Kingdom Pavement Management System road network. o Contract management for cyclic cleansing, ad-hoc inspections and repairs of drainage assets. o A Street works system to manage sample, routine inspections and highway licences e.g scaffolding, hoarding skips etc which will need to interface with the national street works register (Street Manager) o An Asset Management System able to utilise various data sets (eg. highway condition data, defect data, SCRIM survey data etc) to identify proposed carriageway and footway planned maintenance schemes. Solution to support the creation, editing and deletion of Manchester's road network which is based on a United Kingdom Pavement Management System road network.

Delivery location

UKD33, GB

Categories

Highways engineering services 71311220Technical support services 71356300Data collection and collation services 72314000Computer-related management services 72510000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning
Contract periodFrom 1 Feb 2027 to 30 Jan 2032
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Highways engineering services, Technical support services, Data collection and collation services, Computer-related management servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 71. The category anchor is Highways engineering services (71311220); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 713,3543 median · 31.7 average (842 of 3,354 with a bid count)3.7 average (937 of 3,354 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer2Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKD33345 median · 45 average (2 of 3 with a bid count)6.5 average (2 of 3 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)3335.5 median · 6.4 average (10 of 333 with a bid count)1.4 average (10 of 333 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones1
MilestoneTypeDueStatus
The Council is using the e-business portal known as the Chest. Participants will need to register their details at the following link www.the-chest.org.uk . Once registered, participants will be emailed a log-in and password which will allow them to gain access to the documentation relating to this market engagement exercise. Participants will need to electronically submit their completed Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire via the on-line portal by 11th May 2026 as referred to in the Preliminary Market Engagement documentation. We would like to invite you to attend a session where you can demonstrate your Asset management solution. Please let us know of your intention to be included in the demonstrations by completing and submitting the 'Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire - Highway Asset Management' doc via the E Procurement platform, CHEST. You will then contacted to discuss and agree dates for the demonstration sessions which we plan for sometime around end of May/June. https://procontract.due-north.com/Procurer/Advert/View?advertId=e3503841-573d-f111-813c-005056b64545&fromAdvertEvent=Trueengagement11 May 2026scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0687ca
Latest release ID036268-2026
Latest release timestampTue Apr 21 2026 15:03:47 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanning
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£600,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
21 Apr 2026planning036268-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
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