Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-12-08
Buyer: Highways England
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34114000: Special-purpose vehicles | 38296000 | 38300000 | 50410000 | 50430000
Estimated value: 3000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-01-14
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: We require the provision of a specialist survey vehicle to carry out road structural condition surveys at traffic speed; provision and completion of acceptance testing of the vehicle; provision of training, support and maintenance of the measurement system over a period of up to 5 years.
Highways England commission annual structural condition surveys of the strategic road network using the TRASS (Traffic Speed Structural Surveys) contract. These surveys have enabled Highways England to reduce the need for slow speed structural assessment.
Highways England is to procure a next generation Structural Assessment Tool at Traffic Speed (SATTS) device to assist in the research and development of traffic speed structural surveys, to ultimately remove the requirement for slow speed surveys of structural condition. The supplier will be required:
— to provide a device that measures the full deflection response of a pavement to a rolling load at traffic speed,
— provide training, support, annual maintenance and servicing of the measurement system of the device for up to 5 years.
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Highways England will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on award of the contract is communicated to tenderers.
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Award value: 3000000