Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-09-12
Buyer: Highways England
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71000000 | 71300000 | 71313000: Environmental engineering consultancy services | 73000000 | 79300000
Estimated value: 300000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-10-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Specialist Professional, Environmental, Customer Insight, Technical, Research and Engineering Services (SPECTRE) Framework
Appointed suppliers will provide specialist, professional, technical consultancy, engineering advice, research, innovation and procurement advice services across a range of transport related topics.
The provision of technical consultancy, engineering advice, research and innovation for roads, vehicles, highway infrastructure and operations on the following topics:
There will be a maximum of 7 suppliers appointed to this lot. It is expected that the successful suppliers will utilise a diverse supply chain to provide specialist support in the required areas.
Work under the framework may be awarded following mini-competition, following a single response to a request for expressions of interest or through a direct award to a single supplier.
The main site of performance of the activities is England. However, successful suppliers may be requested to work outside of England in support of the organisations enabled to use this framework, as noted at VI.3).
Further details of the requirements of the topic areas and the processes to award work are provided in the procurement documents.
Highways England reserves the right to transfer any unallocated value between lots to fund additional projects. Therefore when considering potential value of work which may be won by a successful supplier, bidders should consider the total expected value of the framework as well as of the relevant lot.
The provision of procurement advice and support for contract development, supply chain analysis and general procurement activities, including commercial assessment support.
There will be a maximum of 6 suppliers appointed to this lot. It is expected that the successful suppliers will utilise a focused supply chain to reduce opportunities for conflicts of interest in the supported procurement activities.
Work under the framework may be awarded following mini-competition, following a single response to a request for expressions of interest or through a direct award to a single supplier.
The main site of performance of the activities is England. However, successful suppliers may be requested to work outside of England in support of the organisations enabled to use this framework, as noted at VI.3).
Further details of the requirements of the topic areas and the processes to award work are provided in the procurement documents.
Highways England reserves the right to transfer any unallocated value between lots to fund additional projects. Therefore when considering potential value of work which may be won by a successful supplier, bidders should consider the total expected value of the framework as well as of the relevant lot.
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Award value: 300000000