Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2017-12-28
Buyer: Highways England
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
CPV classification: 45233130: Road works | 45233139 | 45233140: Roadway works | 45233141: Road-maintenance work | 45233210
Estimated value: 326000000 GBP

Technical requirements: Highways England is looking for a suitable contractor to provide all routine and cyclic maintenance, incident response, defect rectification when instructed, and severe weather delivery on the all-purpose trunk roads and motorways in Area 10 in accordance with its standards and objectives.
Additional duties will include the provision of traffic management for the Contractor's maintenance and response activities including traffic management during incidents and where it is instructed by Highways England, the facilities maintenance of depots and other locations within the region. Under the CDM Regulations 2015, the contractor will be Principal Contractor for all work they undertake unless instructed otherwise by the Service Manager.
Highways England will be conducting a supplier industry event to be held on 5th February at the DW Stadium in Wigan. To register your interest and to confirm attendance, please send an email to:
The successful tenderer will be required to provide all routine and cyclic maintenance, incident response, defect rectification when instructed by Highways England and severe weather delivery on the all-purpose trunk roads and motorways in Highways England Area 10 in accordance with Highways England standards and objectives.
Additional duties will also include the provision of traffic management for the purpose of the Contractor's maintenance and response activities, which is to also include traffic management during incidents and where instructed by Highways England; the facilities maintenance of depots and other locations within the Area 10 region.
Under the CDM Regulations 2015, the Maintenance and Response Contractor will be Principal Contractor for all work they undertake unless instructed otherwise by the Highways England Service Manager. Highways England may consider amending the duties listed above and may remove or amend these as appropriate during the contract period.
— M6 Junction 16 to Junction 30, South end of Higher Walton Viaduct (immediately North of Junction 30). Includes Wigan South link at Junction25 and link to A557 at Junction 26,
— M56 Junction 1 (M60 Junction 4) to Junction 16 start of A494; M57 Junction 1 (Tarbock Island) to Junction 7 (Switch Island),
— M62 Junction 6 Tarbock Roundabout including links to and from the M57 to Junction 12 (Eccles Interchange),
The Service Period for the maintenance and response contract is for a duration of 15 years. Therefore, to continually ensure the validity and appropriateness of the community objectives, the scope, costs and also that the contractor remains the 'right fit' for Highways England and the Community, 3 yearly Service Review Periods have been introduced.
The Contractors Accepted Plan will be modified at these periods to ensure the contractor understands and is committed to providing a service to reflect Highways England's changing aims and expectations over the service period.
Details relating to the expectation, quantities of works and overall requirements of this contract will be made available to all interested parties whom register to attend the Industry day event in Section 1.4.
Highways England will be conducting a supplier industry event to be held on 5th February at the DW Stadium 15 Loire Dr, Wigan WN5 0UH (https://www.dwstadium.com/). To register your interest and to confirm attendance, please send an email to:
— Area10Procurement@highwaysengland.co.uk (maximum of 2 attendees). Please provide a response by 19 January 2018, including the contract you are interested in (Maintenance & Response; Construction Works Framework; Design services Contract).
The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.


Award value: 326000000