Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2017-12-20
Buyer: Highways England
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
CPV classification: 34920000 | 34921000 | 34924000 | 34930000 | 34970000

Technical requirements: Highways England (HE) is the government company charged with operating, maintaining and improving England's motorways and major A roads. We have a huge road investment programme to deliver and want to engage with suppliers to inform our approach to procuring our larger complex infrastructure projects.
Supplier feedback and providing the opportunity to influence project and procurement development is extremely important to us; it is imperative that we work collaboratively to achieve the optimum solutions.
Collaboration is at the heart of the relationships necessary to deliver at the scale and pace required. We are planning to hold a supplier engagement event to provide an overview of HE's opportunities available to the market in the forthcoming years in relation to major infrastructure projects and to provide an overview of the procurement vehicle options proposed specifically for the A303 Stonehenge and Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) projects.
Highways England (HE) is starting an engagement process to identify suppliers who are interested in working with us on our two tunnel projects - the A303 Stonehenge project (A303) and the Lower Thames crossing (LTC).
These projects are two of the largest in HE's Road Investment Programme and both represent major opportunities for the private financing and construction sectors. Although this Prior Information Notice (PIN) covers both projects for consultation purposes, each project will be procured separately with independent and separate procurements.
The A303 project will include a new twin-bore road tunnel under the Stonehenge World Heritage Site as well as a bypass for Winterbourne Stoke and the improvement of junctions with intersecting roads. It is currently anticipated that this project will primarily comprise a privately financed design, build, finance & maintain the contract, and some associated enabling works.
The LTC project comprises two bored tunnels beneath the River Thames with interconnecting link roads to the M25, A13, and A2. It is currently anticipated that this project will primarily comprise both a publicly financed tunnel design& build contract and a privately financed design, build, finance & maintain contract in respect of the associated link roads, with associated enabling works.
There will be many opportunities in these projects at various levels and disciplines so if you would like to be involved or receive more information please send your contact details to Lesley Cole at CIPMarketEngagement@highwaysengland.co.uk and she will send you a short questionnaire to enable you to register your interest and provide us with some key information in relation to your company and areas of particular interest or specialisms.
We will then be able to better tailor our consultation and engagement plans and send invitations targeted to specific events to suit the most appropriate specialisms.
Our first event will be aimed at interested parties with the financial capacity and experience of Financing (DBFM elements only), and tunnelling specialists who have a proven capability of managing and delivering complex, heavy civil and roads/tunnelling works across multiple sites with all the operational systems, stakeholder, and third-party interfaces that such works in highly populated or sensitive areas involve.
It is anticipated that this event will take place in early March 2018 so if your organization meets these criteria we would appreciate hearing from you before 12 noon on 26 January 2018. Responses by all other interested organizations would be appreciated by 28 February 2018 to enable us to plan the next events.
Please note that up to 2 individuals may attend the March event on behalf of your organization. Invitations and an agenda will follow in due course.
Further events will be held at which details will be provided, or your comments sought, on more specific elements of the projects and invite to those events will be more targeted to suit those relevant specialisms.
This PIN is not a call for competition and is not published to reduce time limits for the receipt of tenders.
The specific procurements for both of these projects will be launched in due course by the publication of further PIN's and/or contract notices.