Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-12-20
Buyer: Highways England
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 45233000: Construction work for highways and roads | 45233100: Construction work for highways | 45233110 | 45233120: Road construction works

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 national 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.
We are releasing a market engagement questionnaire along with this PIN in order to gather intel for the scheme. Following this, we are also planning to hold a scheme launch event in February 2019. Please email the NIP Market Engagement inbox (nipmarketengagement@highwaysengland.co.uk) to register interest in both the engagement day and the questionnaire. We will be using our e-Bravo tendering system and once registered you will receive a guidance document on how to access this.
The A66 Northern Trans-Pennine Project focuses on creating a new strategic corridor linking the A1 at Scotch Corner with the M6 J40 at Penrith by upgrading this section of the A66 to dual carriageway and making other improvements along its length. The A66 between these junctions is 50 miles in length of mixed standard both single and dual carriageway. The single carriageways sections total 21 miles in length. The project will also enhance capacity at the junctions at either end: A1 Scotch Corner and M6 J40 Penrith/Kemplay Bank.
This PIN is not a call for competition and is not published to reduce time limits for the receipt of tenders. The procurement for this project will be launched in due course by the publication of the contract notice. Non-participation in any market engagement questionnaires or engagement days shall not prevent any supplier from participating in the procurement or any future event.
By issuing this PIN, Highways England wishes to formally make the market aware of potential opportunities in relation to the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project part of the national infrastructure programme (NIP).
As previously highlighted we will be carrying out a programme of market engagement with interested parties, starting with a market engagement questionnaire and supplier launch day. Please email the NIP market engagement inbox for further details.
Highways England is committed to ensuring a competitive procurement and to fairness, openness and transparency. The overarching aim of all the market consultation exercise is for genuine 2 way dialogue to take place between Highways England and the market, listening to what interested parties have to say and using this to shape the commercial and procurement strategies which set out the approach to the market.
To the extent Highways England carries out any procurement, Highways England reserves the right to award contracts in lots or groups of lots. Interested parties will not be prejudiced by any response or failure to respond to this PIN. Nor shall a response to this PIN guarantee any invitation to participate in this market consultation exercise or any future procurement process that Highways England may conduct. This PIN does not constitute a call for competition to procure any works or services and Highways England is not bound to accept any proposals offered. Highways England is not liable for any costs, fees or expenses incurred by any party responding to this PIN or any party who may participate in the market consultation exercise. In the event that Highways England decides to proceed with any procurement it is currently assumed that such procurement will be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 unless any legal requirement requires a different procedure to be adopted.