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Asset Delivery (AD) Area 13 Maintenance & Response (M&R) Contract

National Highways

Buyer Contact Info

Buyer Name: National Highways

Buyer Address: Bridge House, Walnut Tree Close, Guildford, UK, GU1 4LZ, United Kingdom

Contact Email: info@nationalhighways.co.uk

Contact Telephone: +44 03001235000

Status
complete
Procedure
limited
Value
242590000.0 GBP
Published
12 Aug 2025, 09:05
Deadline
n/a
Contract Start
n/a
Contract End
n/a
Category
works
CPV
45233130 - Construction work for highways
Region
n/a
Awarded To
Kier Highways Limited
Official Source
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Description

This VEAT Notice relates to a Deed of Variation to a National Highways' Maintenance and Response Contract. This Contract currently provides and undertakes all cyclical and reactive maintenance, incident response, defect rectification and severe weather delivery on the trunk roads and motorways within Cumbria & Lancashire (National Highways Area 13) (the "Contract"). Duties also include maintenance of roadside technology, the provision of traffic management for the contractor, maintenance and incident response activities, and traffic management for others who may be working on the network. The variation will add a section of the A69 from the M6 Junction to the County boundary into the Contract which is currently maintained under a Design Build Finance & Operate ("DBFO") contract which is due to expire on 31 March 2026. Consequently the total value of the Contract will increase by approximately 59%. It will also shorten the Contract which will have a new end date of 6 June 2029 instead of 31 March 2032 in order to align with the procurement process for the next Maintenance & Response contracts.

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Opportunity Context

Lots

Lot Description: The Design Build Finance Operate (DBFO) contract covers Section of A69 to Cumbria/ Northumberland county boundary and is due to expire on 31 March 2026. National Highways therefore must appoint an alternative maintenance contractor and it considers that the scope of these works is already included within this existing Maintenance and Response Contract. Therefore these roads will be incorporated into the existing Maintenance and Response (M&R) Contract for Area 13 of the Strategic Road Network following the award of the Deed of Variation. This together with the need for national alignment of the M&R contracts, ready for their next iteration, means that the term of the Area 13 M&R Contract will be shortened and will have a new end date of 6th June 2029 instead of 31st March 2032. These changes will increase the awarded value from £ 153,000,000 to £ 242,590,000.

Lot 1 Has Options: No

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