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Highways England Stopped Vehicle Detection Framework - Accelerated Requirements
Radar detectors
Radar spare parts and accessories
Radar surveillance equipment
+2 more
UK
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Highways England: "Highways England Stopped Vehicle Detection Framework - Accelerated Requirements". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
| Contracting Authority | Highways England | Scope & Categories | Not published | Submission Window | complete No deadline published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Submission Gateway | Direct notice route | Legal Basis & Regime | Standard procurement | Estimated Value (exc. VAT) | Not published |
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Highways England
Market Analytics
Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Highways England. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Average Price Reduction
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Competition Density
5.6Bids / Report
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate availablePayment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Coverage: 12 active published awards; 10 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. Price reduction 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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 AuthorityHighways England | Procedure methodNot published | Procurement categoryNot published |
Statuscomplete | Framework / DPSFramework | CompetitionNot published |
Above thresholdNot published | Legal basisNot published | Tender period startsNot published |
Clarification deadlineNot published | Electronic submissionNot published | Submission languagesNot published |
Published27 Apr 2021, 22:55 BST | Last source update27 Apr 2021, 22:55 BST | Recurring procurementNot published |
ClassificationRadar detectors, Radar spare parts and accessories, Radar surveillance equipment, Road equipment, Software package and information systems | ||
Delivery area UK | ||
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-02aad9 | ||
What is being bought
Highways England requires the accelerated supply of Stopped Vehicle Detection (SVD) technology to detect individual stopped vehicles in live lanes on Smart Motorway All Lane Running sections of the Network in England.
What changed
From the official release history
- Status changed to complete
27 Apr 2021, 22:55 BST - Official notice release published
27 Apr 2021, 22:55 BST - Buyer information updated
27 Apr 2021, 22:55 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
- Lot 1 · #1Individual lot title not publishedcancelledPublished valueNot publishedTo provide the accelerated supply of SVD radar: • roadside installation will be undertaken by third parties but the supplier will be required to commission the radar solution and may be required to support installation; • detection technology and a supporting system which provide operators in our Regional Operational Centres with stopped vehicle alerts, enabling action to be taken to intervene; • the solution will need to be capable of detecting any vehicle permitted to use motorways.Contract periodNot publishedEligibilityNot publishedOptions / renewalNot published
Timeline
- Procedure published
27 Apr 2021, 22:55 BST - Award active
Not published · Not published - Contract active
Signed 27 Apr 2021, 00:00 BST · £16,200,000
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards Navtech Radar Ltd Not published · Not published · active |
Contracts Contract £16,200,000 · signed 27 Apr 2021, 00:00 BST · active |
Bid statistics bids: 1 (lot 1) |
Buyer and organisations in this procedure
Highways England
Contracting authority GB-FTS-8857Documents (0)
Official links; attachments are not copied
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Related procedures (0)
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published |
No-engagement rationaleNot published |
Procedure rationaleIn March 2020 the Government published a smart motorway evidence stocktake and action plan that had been commissioned by the Transport Secretary.
The Transport Secretary has since requested that Highways England consider an acceleration of actions from that plan. In February 2021 the Transport Secretary made a commitment to bring forward the development and installation of stopped vehicle detection (SVD) on the Strategic Road Network (SRN) to 2022. It is for Highways England to deliver on this commitment and it is therefore necessary for Highways England to bring forward the deployment of SVD radar on all existing all lane running sections of the SRN from March 2023 to September 2022.
To achieve this accelerated programme, Highways England had to secure the provision of additional SVD equipment by February 2022.
Highways England previously had two agreements in place for SVD technology both awarded following competed procurement procedures. On 16 July 2020 Highways England awarded a framework (“Lot 1 Framework”) for the provision of a radar SVD solution to Navtech Radar Limited (“Navtech”). A second framework (“Lot 2 Framework”) was awarded to multiple SVD technology providers on 26 February 2021.
Navtech is currently the only provider of technology that has been adequately tested on the SRN and Navtech owns the intellectual property rights to key aspects of the software relating to the radar operation. However, the Lot 1 Framework had already been fully utilised, so it was not possible to acquire further SVD technology under that agreement.
It is also not yet possible to procure a SVD technology solution via the Lot 2 Framework as the suppliers on this framework have not yet had their technologies adequately tested. Even once technology under the Lot 2 Framework is successfully tested, it is estimated that a Lot 2 Framework supplier would not be able to commence supply of a SVD solution until early 2022 at the earliest. This timeframe and the uncertainty around when and if a solution would be successfully tested would not have allowed Highways England to meet its requirement within the necessary timescale.
To meet the deadline to acquire the additional SVD technology by February 2022, Highways England entered into a new agreement with Navtech. The estimated value of the supplies along with associated commissioning and support services under this new agreement is approximately £16.2 million.
This agreement was awarded in accordance with the negotiated procedure without prior publication under Regulation 32(2)(b) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as amended. As set out above, the supplies or services can be supplied only by Navtech because competition is absent for technical reasons, and by virtue of Navtech’s intellectual property rights. No reasonable alternative or substitute existed and the absence of competition was not the result of artificially narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement. |