Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2021-03-26
Buyer: Highways England
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 50200000 | 63712300 | 71000000 | 71200000 | 71242000
Estimated value: 162500000 GBP
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: Highways England is the government company charged with operating, maintaining and improving England's motorways and major A roads. We are delivering the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC), a new high-quality dual carriageway connecting Kent, Thurrock and Essex through a tunnel beneath the River Thames. This is the most ambitious roads project in the UK for more than a generation. The project will be transformational for the UK economy, while offering new connections, better journeys and fewer delays.
The Lower Thames Crossing project involves three main works packages, and therefore comprises a set of contract interfaces materially higher than other Highways England projects. We require a significant integration role to successfully deliver the project and to manage a complex supply chain.
Highways England has procured an Integration Partner to support us in managing contract interfaces. The Integration Partner will provide a broad range of project and programme management services to support our project and contract leadership teams, establishing and running the day to day management processes. As a member of an Integrated Client Team the Integration Partner will provide high quality data analysis and experience-based decision making.
There will be a core eight-year period during which work can be instructed, with a subsequent optional extension period of 1 year +1 year instructed during the core period, which may include providing support to Highways England operations directorate during initial operation of the Lower Thames Crossing.
The cost estimate of GBP 162.5 million is the expected value of the contract and includes the following:
3) Optional contract extension (1 + 1) which Highways England may instruct to support the initial operation of Lower Thames Crossing;
The contract is based on an amended NEC4 Professional Services Contract (January 2019), and the services under the contract will be instructed in six phases, a mobilisation phase and five delivery phases. During the mobilisation phase, project information systems will be provided by the consultant, and service plans developed and approved for the five delivery phases.
Systems and processes: these are the systems and processes that will underpin the project delivery and are made up of Highways England mandated systems and Integration Partner specific systems which when combined and configured will create a Project Information System along with hardware and network connectivity requirements.
Core services: these are services that will be required for the length of the contract term and will apply to all five delivery phases. Examples of these include:
Phase specific services: these are services that will be subject to change through each of the five delivery phases, such as:
Highways England has completed a minimum 10-day standstill period and information on award of the contract was communicated to tenderers.


Winner: Jacobs U.K. Ltd
Award value: 162500000
Number of bids: 4