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Specialist Highway Support Services

Highways consultancy services
South East (UKJ4)
Published value
£4,000,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Kent County Council: "Specialist Highway Support Services". Published status: planning. Published value: £4,000,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityKent County CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£4,000,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Kent County Council
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Kent County Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Average Price Reduction
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
7.1Bids / Report
0% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
BREHENY CIVIL ENGINEERING LIMITEDTop vendor: 90.7% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 247 active published awards; 8 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Price reduction compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
BREHENY CIVIL ENGINEERING LIMITED1 win£2,968,227
KENT COMMUNITY HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST1 win£252,699
Berwick Partners1 win£50,000
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityKent County Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSFramework
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published27 May 2026, 11:38 BST
Last source update27 May 2026, 11:38 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationHighways consultancy services
Delivery area
South East (UKJ4)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06a5cb
What is being bought
Kent County Council (the Council) would like to expand the services provided under framework to allow access to additional independent services. The services provided by the contract are required to: •Give KCC confidence in budget preparation and management for highway and transportation scheme across the County. •Support KCC in the preparation of NEC contract document and evaluation of tenders for major highway and transportation schemes. •Support KCC in the ongoing management of construction contracts including contract administration, assessment of Compensation Events and payment applications, monitoring and financial reporting. •Support the development of scheme proposals in relation to utilities and NRSWA requirements including liaison with individual utility companies to understand scheme impacts and diversions requirements. •Deliver NEC programme reviews at design, tender and construction stages. Proposed Framework Lot Structure: Lot 1 – Independent Cost Consultancy •provide independent cost consultancy services for the optioneering, bidding for funds, planning, preparation and construction of highway and transportation schemes across the County including quantity surveying, risk management and value management. •provide cost consultancy services to support the preparation of NEC contract documents and in the evaluation of tenders to provide the construction of major highway and transportation schemes. •provide cost consultancy services to support the NEC Project Manager during the construction of major highway and transportation schemes, including contract administration, assessment of Compensation Events and Payment Applications, monitoring and monthly financial reporting. Lot 2 – Specialist Utility Support •provide specialist utility support to improve dialogue and cost certainty with utility companies around diversions and scheme impacts following the NRSWA processes. Lot 3 – Programme Review Support •NEC programme review support for schemes (design and construction stages) to ensure compliance with scope and appropriate links, durations and logic. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/tenders/UK-UK-Maidstone:-Highways-consultancy-services./2GB25Z4A66 To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/respond/2GB25Z4A66
What changed
From the official release history
  1. tender value changed
    27 May 2026, 11:38 BST
  2. Status changed to planning
    27 May 2026, 11:38 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    27 May 2026, 11:38 BST
  4. Buyer information updated
    27 May 2026, 11:38 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    27 May 2026, 11:38 BST
  2. Procedure published
    27 May 2026, 11:38 BST
  3. engagement
    17 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST · scheduled
    Kent County Council (the Council) is engaging with suppliers regarding capacity in the market to provide the Specialist Highway Support Services requirements, via a market engagement exercise. All interested suppliers are asked to complete the published market engagement questionnaire and return to the Council by Wednesday 17th June 2026 deadline. After which further virtual market engagement discussions may be held with suppliers to discuss responses further in more detail. As part of the Market Engagement exercise, all interested organisations are invited to complete a Market Engagement questionnaire via the Kent Business Portal (https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/) (Ref: 1039031180). This will be used to gather information, and build on our existing market intelligence to shape our procurement strategy. All responses to this questionnaire should be submitted via the Kent Business Portal, no later than 12pm on Wednesday 17th June 2026. All questionnaire responses will be treated as ‘commercial in confidence. Please use the following access code to submit your market engagement questionnaire: 2GB25Z4A66
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Kent County Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PLDL-8938-YGYW
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  • Kent County Council
    buyer

    GB-PPON: PLDL-8938-YGYW
    Sessions House, County Road, Maidstone, UKJ45, ME14 1XQ, GB
    laura.garay2@kent.gov.uk
Documents (1)
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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published