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Highway Maintenance, Design, Construction and Other Services - CPU 455.

Agricultural
forestry
horticultural
+9 more
South East (UKJ14)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Oxfordshire County Council: "Highway Maintenance, Design, Construction and Other Services - CPU 455.". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityOxfordshire County CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Oxfordshire County Council
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Oxfordshire County Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
30.7Bids / Report
10.3% 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: 86 active published awards; 78 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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 AuthorityOxfordshire County Council
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
Published17 Mar 2021, 16:40 GMT
Last source update17 Mar 2021, 16:40 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationAgricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services, Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services, Construction work, Construction work for bridges, Repair and maintenance services, Repair, maintenance and associated services of vehicles and related equipment
Delivery area
South East (UKJ14)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-029cb8
What is being bought
The Highways Contract is for the contractor to develop, with the Council, a high performing comprehensive highways service. The Highways Contract encompasses highway maintenance, design, construction, transport planning consultancy, with other services including but not limited to vehicle and grounds maintenance. On 13 July 2010 the Council entered into the Highways Contract with Atkins Limited ("Atkins") to provide the above works following a tender process commenced by contract notice 2008/S 210-279078 dated 29 October 2008. The Highways Contract is for a contract period of 10 years commencing 1 April 2010, extendable by up to a further 10 years. So far, the contract has been extended by three years so that the contract period expires end of March 2023. The values set out at II.2.7 of this VEAT Notice represent the estimated remaining value of the Highways Contract across the possible remaining term. Atkins contracted to sell its highways maintenance business to Skanska Construction UK Limited ("Skanska"). The sale proceeded by way of an asset sale and included the plant and equipment required to operate the highways maintenance business of Atkins, the transfer of leases or rights to use properties and facilities previously used by the highways maintenance business, and the transfer of approximately 1,200 employees, including around 80 in the central management and business support functions. It also included the transfer of customer contracts, including the Highways Contract with the Council. The Highways Contract between the Council and Atkins permitted assignment by Atkins of the benefit of the Contract with the consent of the Council. Atkins requested consent to assign the benefit of the Contract to Skanska and the Council consented to such assignment. The Highways Contract also provided that the original Provider should remain legally responsible for performance of the Contract, even if the benefit of the Contract is assigned. The Council relied on this provision. A VEAT notice was published in OJEU. Skanska have contracted to sell its highways maintenance business to Milestone Infrastructure Limited. The sale will proceed by way of an asset sale, and will include plant and equipment required to operate the highways maintenance business of Skanska, the transfer of leases or rights to use properties and facilities previously used by the highways maintenance business, and the transfer of approximately 1,200 employees, including around 80 in the central management and business support functions. It also includes the transfer of customer contracts, including the Highways Contract with the Council.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    17 Mar 2021, 16:40 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    17 Mar 2021, 16:40 GMT
  3. Buyer information updated
    17 Mar 2021, 16:40 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    Status not published
    Published valueNot published
    The Highways Contract is for the contractor to develop, with the Council, a high performing comprehensive highways service. The Highways Contract encompasses highway maintenance, design, construction, transport planning consultancy, with other services including but not limited to vehicle and grounds maintenance. On 13 July 2010 the Council entered into the Highways Contract with Atkins Limited ("Atkins") to provide the above works following a tender process commenced by contract notice 2008/S 210-279078 dated 29 October 2008. The Highways Contract is for a contract period of 10 years commencing 1 April 2010, extendable by up to a further 10 years. So far, the contract has been extended by three years so that the contract period expires end of March 2023. The values set out at II.2.7 of this VEAT Notice represent the estimated remaining value of the Highways Contract across the possible remaining term. Atkins contracted to sell its highways maintenance business to Skanska Construction UK Limited ("Skanska"). The sale proceeded by way of an asset sale and included the plant and equipment required to operate the highways maintenance business of Atkins, the transfer of leases or rights to use properties and facilities previously used by the highways maintenance business, and the transfer of approximately 1,200 employees, including around 80 in the central management and business support functions. It also included the transfer of customer contracts, including the Highways Contract with the Council. The Highways Contract between the Council and Atkins permitted assignment by Atkins of the benefit of the Contract with the consent of the Council. Atkins requested consent to assign the benefit of the Contract to Skanska and the Council consented to such assignment. The Highways Contract also provided that the original Provider should remain legally responsible for performance of the Contract, even if the benefit of the Contract is assigned. The Council relied on this provision. A VEAT notice was published in OJEU. Skanska have contracted to sell its highways maintenance business to Milestone Infrastructure Limited. The sale will proceed by way of an asset sale, and will include plant and equipment required to operate the highways maintenance business of Skanska, the transfer of leases or rights to use properties and facilities previously used by the highways maintenance business, and the transfer of approximately 1,200 employees, including around 80 in the central management and business support functions. It also includes the transfer of customer contracts, including the Highways Contract with the Council.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    17 Mar 2021, 16:40 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 17 Mar 2021, 00:00 GMT · Not published
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Milestone Infrastructure Limited
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
Not published · signed 17 Mar 2021, 00:00 GMT · active
Bid statistics
highestValidBidValue: 166000000
lowestValidBidValue: 97000000
highestValidBidValue: 166000000 (lot 1)
lowestValidBidValue: 97000000 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Oxfordshire County Council

Contracting authority GB-FTS-83
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  • Oxfordshire County Council
    buyer

    County Hall, Oxford, UKJ14, OX1 1ND
    Amy.Keylock@Oxfordshire.gov.uk
    +44 7392318916

  • High Court of England and Wales
    reviewBody

    Royal Courts of Justice, London, WC1A 2LL

  • Milestone Infrastructure Limited
    supplier

    10260164
    Abel Smith House, Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, UKJ14, SG1 2ST
Documents (0)
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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleThis Voluntary Transparency Notice gives notice that Oxfordshire County Council (the "Council") intends to enter into a contract in the form of a Deed of Novation (the "Deed of Novation") to novate an underlying public works contract (the "Contract") to Milestone Infrastructure Limited ("Milestone"). The Council considers the effect of entering into the Deed of Novation to be a permitted modification to the Contract under regulation 72 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and, as such, does not require a separate procurement procedure. In particular, the novation to Milestone falls within the safe harbour at regulation 72(1)(d) on the basis that a new contractor replaces the one to which the Council had initially awarded the Contract. More specifically: 1. Milestone is replacing the original contractor following a corporate restructuring in the form of a business sale to Milestone. This business sale has the consequence of the universal succession of Milestone into the position of the initial contractor (within the meaning of regulation 72(1)(d)(ii)); 2. Milestone fulfils the criteria for qualitative selection initially established in the procurement of Contract; and 3. The novation of the Contract to Milestone does not entail any other substantial modifications to the contract, and is not aimed at circumventing the application of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. For the reasons set out in this notice, the modification to the Contract by way of the Deed of Novation is permitted under the Public Contract Regulations 2015, and a new procurement procedure is not required. The Council has not yet entered into the Deed of Novation but intends to do so as soon as practicable following a ten day standstill period starting from the date after publication of this notice.