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Specialist Highway Support Services

Buyer: Kent County Council →

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BuyerKent County Council
StatusOpen
Deadline7 Sept 2026
Value£4,000,000
Published18 Aug 2026

What is being bought

The Procurement will be divided into the following 3 Lots: •Lot 1 – Independent Cost Consultancy •Lot 2 – Specialist Utility Support •Lot 3 – Programme Review Support The Council are procuring a 3 Lot framework agreement requiring professional services and related services within the boundaries of Kent in accordance with the below Lot breakdown: 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.

Delivery location

UKJ4, GB

Categories

Financial consultancy services 66171000Transport systems consultancy services 71311200Highways consultancy services 71311210Infrastructure works consultancy services 71311300Structural engineering consultancy services 71312000Environmental engineering consultancy services 71313000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£4,000,000
Contract periodFrom 13 Apr 2027 to 12 Apr 2030
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Price

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Financial consultancy services, Transport systems consultancy services, Highways consultancy services, Infrastructure works consultancy services, Structural engineering consultancy services, Environmental engineering consultancy servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 66. The category anchor is Financial consultancy services (66171000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 668392 median · 7.8 average (222 of 839 with a bid count)1.9 average (261 of 839 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer2Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKJ41Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)10714 median · 14 average (1 of 107 with a bid count)9 average (1 of 107 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementYes
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06da2a
Latest release ID078526-2026
Latest release timestampTue Aug 18 2026 11:56:26 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/078526-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsCompetitive flexible procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadline2026-09-07T12:00:00+01:00
Enquiry deadline2026-08-21T12:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2027-02-19T23:59:59+00:00
Submission method detailshttps://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/commonNoticeSearch/viewNotice.html?displayNoticeId=1055339720
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£4,000,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
18 Aug 2026tenderUpdate078526-2026
14 Aug 2026tenderUpdate077499-2026
7 Aug 2026tenderUpdate075270-2026
4 Aug 2026tenderUpdate073445-2026
3 Aug 2026tender073274-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (5 releases)
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7 Aug 2026 · 075270-2026 · tenderUpdate
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