Official UK procurement notice
Highways Structures Principal Inspections
Authority: Kirklees Council (Local council)
This estimated contract start date is 7th December 2026 and will run until 6th September 2028. The Council is looking to award to a suitably qualified, competent and experienced Engineering Consultancy that can undertake regular planned inspections and prepare reports for Kirklees Council owned structures detailed within Appendix 5: Price Lists.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis estimated contract start date is 7th December 2026 and will run until 6th September 2028.
The Council is looking to award to a suitably qualified, competent and experienced Engineering Consultancy that can undertake regular planned inspections and prepare reports for Kirklees Council owned structures detailed within Appendix 5: Price Lists.
Highway Structures include: bridges (including footbridges, cycle route bridges, bridleway bridges, accommodation bridges, occupation bridges, swing bridges, subways, underpasses, buried culverts); retaining walls; sign/signal gantries; cantilever road signs; tunnels and which satisfy the dimensional criteria defined in the Well-Managed Highway Infrastructure: Code of Practice - Part C and CG 300 Technical Approval of Highway Structures.
The services that the Contractor will provide are technical, engineering, and supervisory services associated with the execution of inspection works and the preparation of inspection reports for each of the structures in Price Lists 1, 2, 3 and 4.
- The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 16 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT.
- How the procedure runs: Stage 1 - Completeness and Compliance Checks Stage 2 - Exclusion Grounds Stage 3 - Conditions of Participation Stage 4 - Quality and Price Assessment Stage 5 - Due Diligence Checks
CPV: Structural engineering consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£170,000
What it takes to wini
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).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
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).
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality
- Price
- Price carries 70 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 7 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · next expected 16 Nov 2026
- First published
- 24 Sept 2026, 13:35 BST
- Last source update
- 9 Oct 2026, 13:11 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 16 Nov 2026
- Authority reference
KMCHS-466- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-095667- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077983Find a Tender
- How it runs
Stage 1 - Completeness and Compliance Checks
Stage 2 - Exclusion Grounds
Stage 3 - Conditions of Participation
Stage 4 - Quality and Price Assessment
Stage 5 - Due Diligence Checks
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 9 Nov 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 26 Oct 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
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Timeline
24 Sept 2026 → 7 Dec 2026 · 7 dates- Planning notice published49 days ago24 Sept 2026, 13:35 BST
- Next notice expected40 days ago3 Oct 2026, 00:59 BST
- Tender notice published35 days ago8 Oct 2026, 14:46 BST
- Clarification questions by17 days ago26 Oct 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Submission deadline3 days ago9 Nov 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Today12 Nov 2026
- Award decision expected byin 4 days16 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 24 days7 Dec 2026
Notice history
6 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 24 Sept 2026- Planned procurement notice published24 Sept 2026, 13:35 BSTUK3
- Tender notice published8 Oct 2026, 14:46 BSTUK4
- Published value published: £170,0008 Oct 2026, 14:46 BST
- Status changed to active8 Oct 2026, 14:46 BST
- Deadline moved to 9 Nov 2026, 13:00 GMT8 Oct 2026, 14:46 BST+10 days · was 30 Oct 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Tender notice published9 Oct 2026, 13:11 BSTUK4
Published amendments (1)
Amendment to the Atamis Reference number was C1322 is now C1363
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender