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# SC24029 Highway Term Maintenance Contract 2026

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/sc24029-highway-term-maintenance-contract-2026-ocds-h6vhtk-04afcb). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Kent County Council: "SC24029 Highway Term Maintenance Contract 2026". Published status: complete. Published Value: £2,000,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 25 Nov 2024, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: procontract.due-north.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Kent County Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/kent-county-council-ons-e10000016)
- **Published Value:** £2,000,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 25 November 2024 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Competitive procedure with negotiation
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Control, safety, signalling and light equipment, Gully cleaning and emptying services, Highway maintenance work, Repair, maintenance and associated services related to roads and other equipment, Road equipment (+3 more)
- **Delivery Location:** UKJ4
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/sc24029-highway-term-maintenance-contract-2026-ocds-h6vhtk-04afcb#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04afcb`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/sc24029-highway-term-maintenance-contract-2026-ocds-h6vhtk-04afcb#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [procontract.due-north.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprocontract.due-north.com%2FAdvert%2FIndex%3FadvertId%3Dc175c11c-8d8f-ef11-8130-005056b64545)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/sc24029-highway-term-maintenance-contract-2026-ocds-h6vhtk-04afcb#participate

## Description
Following a competitive procedure with negotiation under Regulation 29 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the "Procurement"), Kent County Council (the "Council") has appointed a service provider (the "Service Provider") to deliver a highways term maintenance contract (the "Contract"). The Council's highway term maintenance services are currently delivered through the Council's existing contract (the "Current HTMC"), which expires on 30 April 2026. The Council has entered into the Contract as of 19 November 2025 to allow sufficient time for implementation and to ensure service continuity from the expiry of the Current HTMC. The initial term of the Contract is 14 years (168 months) (plus a six (6) month mobilisation period during which Task Orders will be issued under the Contract for the initial term). There will be an option to extend the Contract by up to a maximum aggregate of seven (7) years (84 months).
At the Final Tender Stage, the Council identified the most economically advantageous tender using the Price per Quality Point evaluation method. Please also see Section VI for additional information. 
This Procurement also includes the potential for the local authorities listed in Section II.2.11 below to have access to in order to deliver specific schemes/projects with the Service Provider.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 34143000, 34920000, 34970000, 34990000, 44113910, 45233139
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Estimated Value:** £2,000,000,000
- **Description:** The Procurement was undertaken as a competitive procedure with negotiation under Regulation 29 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
Following, three separate rounds of market engagement in January, June, and August 2024 the Procurement launched ...

- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 080361-2025-SC24029-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Ringway Infrastructure Services Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-27399`
  - Value: £2,000,000,000 † (exc. VAT); very large published value · not counted until verified, check the notice

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 080361-2025-SC24029-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £2,000,000,000
  - Signed Date: 19/11/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F080361-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-12-05T17:20:26.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-23T04:06:04.137Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04afcb