Award

Efficiency Programme Delivery Partner

NATIONAL HIGHWAYS

This public procurement record has 4 releases in its history.

Award

29 Apr 2025 at 13:30

Tender

02 Jan 2024 at 16:09

Planning

20 Dec 2023 at 17:04

Planning

28 Jun 2023 at 16:28

Summary of the contracting process

National Highways has awarded a contract titled "Efficiency Programme Delivery Partner" to McKinsey & Company, valued at £43 million, with options extending the contract until September 2030 and increasing the total value to £75 million. This contract, classified under the general management consultancy services category, involves improving National Highways' performance across various themes, such as environmental sustainability and digital integration. The procurement process followed a selective, restricted procedure. Key dates include the contract period from April 2025 to April 2028, covering diverse regions across the United Kingdom, such as London, the South East, and the Midlands. The award status was published on 29th April 2025, and the procurement stage is marked as complete.

This tender presents lucrative opportunities for businesses specialising in management consultancy and services aligned with digital transformation, capital delivery, and environmental sustainability. Especially, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are encouraged to participate, given the contract's focus on integrated and flexible capital delivery, supply chain alignment, and sustainable transformation processes. Businesses capable of fostering a digitally enabled organisation or enhancing asset lifecycle management will find themselves well-suited to compete and benefit from the growth opportunities offered by the efficiency programme's ambitious outcomes, as it aims to establish a sustainable legacy of improvement within National Highways.

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Notice Title

Efficiency Programme Delivery Partner

Notice Description

The efficiency programme delivery partner contract (originally advertised as the transformation delivery partnership) is a service to help National Highways deliver its efficiency programme in roads period 3. The service will operate from April 2025 to April 2028, with an option to extend until September 2030. The contract value to April 2028 will be PS43m with the potential to increase to PS75m if the full extension period is utilised. The efficiency delivery partner contract will help support a centralised programme for delivering change to realise the required efficiency outcomes in National Highways. The contract will challenge, advise, and support National Highways as it develops, implements, embeds and realises the benefits of the programme, whilst leaving a sustainable legacy of change and improved capability throughout the company. The key objective of the programme is the tangible improvement in National Highways' performance in relation to Six Themes: 1: Integrated and flexible capital delivery 2: Supply chain aligned to new delivery model and NH ambitions 3: Mature asset lifecycle ownership 4: Digitally enabled organisation that delivers on business requirements and customer expectations 5: Proactive control of our network 6: Environmental sustainability deeply embedded in what we do The programme will be centrally led with the following design principles: -Led by National Highways employees from across the company, with the efficiency programme delivery partner supporting the activity -Overseen by one Programme Office coordinating and maintaining the single source of the truth through a single way of working across all themes with a clear governance structure. -Focussed on truly cross-cutting initiatives that impact across multiple directorates and functional areas of our business -Building capabilities and ensuring change is fully embedded and sustained becoming business as usual -A focus on long-term transformation and measurable outcomes rather than short-term cost savings This efficiency programme is a self-financing model, with a focus on delivering efficiency targets in both capital and operational expenditure within the RIS3 settlement. The investment made will be recovered from the value of efficiencies made through delivering the programme within the 5-year period. Work under the contract will be issued as tasks with defined deliverables and performance measures. Allocation of future tasks will be predicated on continued good performance. Further details are available in the procurement documents.

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
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Publication Source
Contracts Finder
Latest Notice
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/15fe4b81-3adf-4c3f-92b6-a35a48a9376a
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Planning, Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Award Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Selective
Procurement Method Details
Restricted procedure (above threshold)
Tender Suitability
SME
Awardee Scale
Large

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security


CPV Codes

79411000 - General management consultancy services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£43,000,000 £10M-£100M
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
£43,000,000 £10M-£100M
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
29 Apr 202510 months ago
Submission Deadline
1 Jul 2024Expired
Future Notice Date
2 Jan 2024Expired
Award Date
18 Feb 20251 years ago
Contract Period
1 Apr 2025 - 1 Apr 2028 3-4 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Not Specified
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
BIRMINGHAM
Postcode
B1 1RN
Post Town
Birmingham
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLJ South East (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLJ2 Surrey, East and West Sussex
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLJ25 West Surrey
Delivery Location
TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLE Yorkshire and The Humber, TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLI London, TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England)

Local Authority
Guildford
Electoral Ward
Stoke
Westminster Constituency
Guildford

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

MCKINSEY & COMPANY, INC. UNITED KINGDOM

Further Information

Notice Documents

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