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Published 30 Sept 2026, 10:34 BST

Official UK procurement notice

LTC Co Regulatory & Economic Advice / Transition Support

Official notice

Authority: National Highways Limited (Central government)

Direct awardSME suitable
Sectors: Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Awarded value£310,000published award · exc. VAT
Awarded 16 Sept 2026no call for competition
Awarded to Indepen Limited

What is being bought

Published requirement description

To provide specialist advice and support to the Programme Director in the planning and delivery of transition arrangements around risk management / regulation to enable successful delivery of the private sector transfer of Lower Thames Crossing .

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1AwardedSME
Eligibility: SME eligible
79410000 Business and management consultancy services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Direct award
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Notice status
Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Direct award — no call for competition
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
30 Sept 2026, 10:34 BST
Last source update
30 Sept 2026, 10:34 BST
Authority reference
pro_24549
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-092212
Latest notice
Contract award notice (UK6)
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077d35 Find a Tender
Why no open competition
Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
Published justification
Retaining the existing regulatory advisors, on the project provides clear commercial, programme, and risk management benefits: The current advisors have developed a detailed understanding of the project’s regulatory framework, key risks, and stakeholder expectations. Replacing them would result in a loss of knowledge, requiring significant time and cost to onboard new advisors. Introducing new advisors at this stage would create avoidable delays while they familiarise themselves with the project, potentially impacting critical milestones. Maintaining the existing team supports continuity and protects the programme timeline. Transitioning to new advisors would incur duplication of work, additional onboarding costs, and inefficiencies during the handover period. Retention avoids these unnecessary expenditures. Changing advisors risks inconsistency in outputs and could undermine prior work or require revalidation.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics — not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £310,0001 award exc. VAT
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Indepen LimitedSME12 Oct 2026 — 31 Jul 2028£310,00016 Sept 2026Awarded

Notice history

3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 30 Sept 2026
  1. Contract signature expected
    9 Oct 2026, 23:59 BSTscheduled
  2. Contract award notice published
    30 Sept 2026, 10:34 BSTUK6
  3. Transparency notice published
    30 Sept 2026, 10:31 BSTUK5

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

National Highways Limited

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PGMJ-3793-VBBN Three Snowhill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham, West Midlands, B4 6GA [email protected] 0300 123 5000

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Conflict of interest declarationtenderConflict of interest declarationNot published

Notices published for this procedure

  • Contract award notice awardContract award noticeUK6Contract award notice on Find a Tender
  • Transparency notice awardTransparency noticeUK5Transparency notice on Find a Tender