Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-12-21
Buyer: Highways England
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 44000000 | 45000000: Construction work | 45233000: Construction work for highways and roads | 45233100: Construction work for highways | 71000000
Estimated value: 8700000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: DIPs will design and construct highway projects across England under NEC4 standard terms, with suitable amendments. The term will be from 2018 to 2024.
The framework will be divided into 8 lots, with each lot having a specific value threshold for work packages and covering a defined geographical area:
Successful DIPs will be guaranteed an initial package of work under each lot with subsequent contracts being allocated either on a direct award basis or under mini-competition which may include the suppliers appointed to all lots. The procurement documents will provide more detail on how work will be allocated.
Provision of DIP services for packages of work with an estimated value up to £100m. Lot 1 schemes will primarily be in the South West and Midlands regions of England but the 2 successful tenderers may also have opportunities to win additional work packages or standalone schemes in the rest of England in the circumstances specified in the procurement documents.
Following appointment to the framework, each successful tenderer will be awarded a package of work, with an approximate total value of between £25m and £83m. Each package will have a 2-3 individual named project schemes, to be delivered during the framework term. Further details on each package will be confirmed in published procurement documents.
The supplier with the highest assessed score appointed to the lot will be given their preferred package.
In addition to the initial package awarded following the tender, further packages and standalone schemes will be issued through a direct award or tendered as a mini-competition which may include the suppliers appointed to all lots, as described in the procurement documents. In respect of contract values then applicants will have the ability to win work of value from other lots as well as their own.
Support Project Control Framework (PCF) Stage 2: specialist advice on planning and buildability; and where instructed Investigative and intrusive surveys.
Responsible for the detailed design and construction of a designated project. Managing their designers to produce optimum solutions, in-house resource & specialist supply chain to construct scheme, ensuring the scheme is delivered to time, cost and performance outcomes. The DIP will act as the Regional integrator between Highways England (HE), Technical Advisor Partner (TAP), DIP supply chain and key stakeholders to deliver an integrated solution. With specialisms including but not limited to: Prelim' design, specialist advice on the whole-life-costing and future maintenance/inspection requirements and provisions, development of collaboration arrangements, Supply Chain Strategy, development of progress approvals & planning consents & DCOs, Buildability and Value Engineering reviews, Risk management, Development of H&S, Environmental, and Quality plans for executing works, construction and commissioning of enabling and construction works, Principal Contractor and Principal Designer under CDM duties, Revision and agreement of final account, Defects rectification and aftercare, Hand over asset, Strategic Programme Office related services: Planning & production strategy, Regional Procurement strategy & materials logistics plan, Commercial management, Digital platform transformation, Skills & capability strategy to minimise regional skills gap, Performance Management Office, Health, Safety & Welfare. Other duties as instructed by the Project Manager.
The DIP will be expected to contribute to national and regional Centres of Excellence to help drive innovation and to establish a Sustainable Improvement Hub to develop and deliver a procurement pipeline, common regional supply chain, promote procurement execution and facilitate supplier relationship management in the regions in which they operate. The DIPs will contribute to the development of HE's role as Network Owner and the DIP contracts may evolve over their life to reflect this developing maturity. It is mandated that the DIPs will make use of the HE's category management frameworks, and any future category management arrangements, to whom they will subcontract elements of work. HE may require suppliers to enter into an appropriate confidentiality agreement in relation to the operation of the category management contracts.
Following allocation of RIS2 work packages, in accordance with the terms, HE reserves the right to transfer any unallocated value between lots to fund additional schemes in different geographical areas.
Provision of DIP services for packages of work with an estimated value up to £100m. Lot 2 schemes will primarily be in the South East and East regions of England but the two successful tenderers may also have opportunities to win additional work packages or standalone schemes in the rest of England in the circumstances specified in the procurement documents.
Following appointment to the framework, each successful tenderer will be awarded a package of work, with an approximate total value between £78m and £94m. Each package will have a 2-3 individual named project schemes, to be delivered during the framework term. Further details on each package will be confirmed in published procurement documents.
The supplier with the highest assessed score appointed to the lot will be given their preferred package.
In addition to the initial package awarded following the tender stage, further packages and standalone schemes will be issued through a direct award or tendered as a mini-competition which may include the suppliers appointed to all lots, as described in the procurement documents. In respect of contract values then applicants will have the ability to win work of value from other lots as well as their own.


Winner: Geoffrey Osborne Ltd
Award value: 8700000000
Number of bids: 7