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title: "Specialist advice and testing on corrosive protection of Steelwork"
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# Specialist advice and testing on corrosive protection of Steelwork

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/specialist-advice-and-testing-on-corrosive-protection-of-steelwork-ocds-h6vhtk-058291). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** National Highways Limited: "Specialist advice and testing on corrosive protection of Steelwork". Published status: complete. Contract Value: £300,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [National Highways Limited](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/national-highways-limited-gov-ot1346)
- **Contract Value (direct award):** £300,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Direct award
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Corrosion engineering services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £300,000 (exc. VAT, 1 award)
- **Official Documents:** 6 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/specialist-advice-and-testing-on-corrosive-protection-of-steelwork-ocds-h6vhtk-058291#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-058291`

## Before you bid
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- **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/specialist-advice-and-testing-on-corrosive-protection-of-steelwork-ocds-h6vhtk-058291#tl-md)

## Description
National Highways (NH) is looking to secure the provision of a single supplier to provide independent specialist technical advice on all issues relating to paints and the corrosion protection of steelwork used in our highway structures.
As well as providing specialist technical advice the services will include undertaking inspections of paint to structures on
sites within England, obtaining and testing paint samples and the testing of paints to ensure durability of products used.
The strategic road network includes motorways, and single and dual carriageway all-purpose trunk roads. It is proposed to construct a large number of steel highway structures associated with major schemes. National Highways is also responsible for maintaining approximately 1750 steel bridges, 3000 steel gantry
structures and many minor steel structures such as masts and lighting columns on the strategic road network

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 71337000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

- **Contract Period:** 01/01/2026 to 31/12/2028
- **Renewal published:** yes

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

  - Supplier(s): **Socotec UK Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-51674`
  - Value: £300,000 (exc. VAT)
  - Date: 31/05/2026

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £300,000
  - Signed Date: 06/10/2026

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F096630-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-10-13T13:59:39.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T04:51:21.606Z
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