Official UK procurement notice
Highways Maintenance Services Contracts 2025
Authority: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (Local council)
What is being bought3 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThe Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) (the Council) has a statutory obligation, as a Highway Authority, to maintain the public highway within its boundary and in doing so we require specialist contractors to support us in carrying out these works. We are responsible for over 188km of carriageways, 380km of footways, five bridges including the two Thames crossings and over 12,000 streetlights.
To streamline our current service provision, we are looking for contractors to deliver our requirements under 3 contract Lots:
- Lot 1 - Highways Drainage Work
- Lot 2 - Highways Structures
- Lot 3 - Highway Maintenance and Projects
These contracts are expected to commence on the 1st April 2025 for initial period of 5 years, with the option to extend for a further 3 years, in 3 x 12-months increments.
Each of these Lots is described in further detail below and Applicants may express an interest in any number of Lots.
CPV: Carriageway resurfacing works · Construction consultancy services · Construction work for bridges · Construction work for highways, roads · Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork · Construction, foundation and surface works for highways, roads · Design consultancy services · Drainage and surface works · Drainage construction works · Drainage works · Footbridge construction work · Gully cleaning and emptying services · +13 more
Lots and requirements (3)Procurement structure
3 lots · all with a published value (£107,500,000 together)Lot #1Highways drainage work – repairs and replacement of highway drainage connections from…RenewalPublished value£5,300,000
Highways drainage work – repairs and replacement of highway drainage connections from gullies to the Thames Water connection, installation of new highways drainage systems and deep connections and headings, maintenance and installations of Sustainable Drainage systems (SuDs) and design work.
Lot #2Highways Structures – maintenance and repairs to the highways structures which…RenewalPublished value£4,200,000
Highways Structures – maintenance and repairs to the highways structures which includes two Thames crossings, one road bridge over a canal and one over a railway line, along with a footbridge and length of Thames Embankment wall. This will also include technical inspections, Approval In Principle (AIP) technical applications from developers and design work.
Lot #3Highway Maintenance and Projects – footway and carriageway and street furniture…RenewalPublished value£98,000,000
Highway Maintenance and Projects – footway and carriageway and street furniture repairs and planned maintenance works included all carriageway road markings, streetlighting repairs and planned maintenance, lit and non- illuminated highways signs, carrying out structural and electrical tests on the street lighting columns and electrical connections, installing new apparatus and working with the network distributor UKPN for electrical connections, helping to service new electric vehicle charge points and small cell installations, install new street scene improvements, implement projects to aid road safety and sustainable transport and implement projects on the public highway through developer / planning requirements and design work.
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How this buyer will score bids.
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Suitability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Restricted procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 13 Sept 2024, 11:45 BST
- Last source update
- 13 Sept 2024, 11:45 BST
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-029365- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Performance terms
The main commercial conditions and performance requirements will be described in the procurement documents which are being made available with as part of the SQ documentation. The Contracts will be based on the NEC4 Term Service Contract and Applicants are referred to the SQ documentation for further information.
- Review procedure
The Council will comply with its obligations under Regulations 86 and 87 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended).
Publisher note: 1. To express interest in the Contract, Applicants must complete and submit the SQ through the Portal no later than the deadline in IV.2.2. Please note that Applicants must allow sufficient time to upload their SQ Responses as the Council is under no obligation to consider SQ Responses submitted after that deadline. 2. An Applicant may be a single organisation or a consortium. In addition, Applicants may be entitled to rely on third parties in order to achieve the minimum standards set out in the SQ Guidance. Applicants are referred to the SQ Guidance for requirements that apply in these cases. 3. All financial values in this Contract Notice are estimated and may be subject to change. The estimated total value of the Contract in II.1.5 provides for and includes the value of the optional maximum extension period. Applicants are also referred to the procurement documents for further details about the likely values of work under the Contract and in particular, that given its nature as a term service contract there will be no guarantee of a particular volume or value of work under the Contract. 4. All dates set out in this Contract Notice are based on the Council’s current procurement programme which it reserves the right to change and update at any stage during the procurement. Such dates may therefore change. 5. Although the work under the Contract is categorised for the purposes of this Contract Notice as a works contract, Applicants shall note that it will contain significant elements of services and supplies. 6. A response to this Contract Notice does not guarantee that an Applicant will be invited to submit a tender. The Council is not bound to enter into any contract arising out of the procedures envisaged by this Contract Notice and may vary its requirements or procedure at any time. The Council reserves the right to abandon, delay or postpone this procurement at any time. Applicants are referred to the SQ Guidance for full instructions and conditions of participation in this procurement. 7. Applicants will be solely responsible and liable for all costs associated and arising out of or in connection with responding to this Contract Notice and the SQ and with submitting any tender, howsoever such costs are incurred. 8. The Council considers it likely that TUPE will apply at the commencement of the Contracts and Applicants are referred to the procurement documents for further information.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 11 Oct 2024, 14:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
Timeline
13 Sept 2024 → 11 Oct 2024 · 2 dates- Notice published13 Sept 2024, 11:45 BST
- Submission deadline11 Oct 2024, 14:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court of England and WalesReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria