--- title: "Efficiency Programme Delivery Partner" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-6f5d5610-d78b-407a-80bf-c5bf25cce787" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-6f5d5610-d78b-407a-80bf-c5bf25cce787" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-6f5d5610-d78b-407a-80bf-c5bf25cce787.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-6f5d5610-d78b-407a-80bf-c5bf25cce787.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Award" buyer: "NATIONAL HIGHWAYS" published: "2025-04-29" --- # Efficiency Programme Delivery Partner Buyer: NATIONAL HIGHWAYS Current stage: Award OCID: ocds-b5fd17-6f5d5610-d78b-407a-80bf-c5bf25cce787 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-6f5d5610-d78b-407a-80bf-c5bf25cce787) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-6f5d5610-d78b-407a-80bf-c5bf25cce787.json) ## Summary 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. ## Notice 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. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/15fe4b81-3adf-4c3f-92b6-a35a48a9376a | | 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 | | All stages | Planning, Tender, Award | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 29 Apr 2025 | | Submission deadline | 1 Jul 2024 | | Future notice date | 2 Jan 2024 | | Award date | 18 Feb 2025 | | Contract period | 1 Apr 2025 - 1 Apr 2028 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £43,000,000 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | £43,000,000 | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Complete | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Active | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | NATIONAL HIGHWAYS | | Locality | BIRMINGHAM | | Post town | Birmingham | | Postcode | B1 1RN | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLJ South East (England) | | ITL 2 | TLJ2 Surrey, East and West Sussex | | ITL 3 | TLJ25 West Surrey | | Local authority | Guildford | | Electoral ward | Stoke | | Westminster constituency | Guildford | | 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) | ## Supplier | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Number of suppliers | 1 | | Supplier names | MCKINSEY & COMPANY, INC. UNITED KINGDOM | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security ### Codes - 79411000 - General management consultancy services ## Release History - 29 Apr 2025 at 13:30 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/15fe4b81-3adf-4c3f-92b6-a35a48a9376a - 2 Jan 2024 at 16:09 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/d69af9f0-2ebf-4b29-ac7d-7a381a66f00e - 20 Dec 2023 at 17:04 - Planning - Planned Procurement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1e497f97-cbe1-4702-9cc2-6559693e0c93 - 28 Jun 2023 at 16:28 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/fcd06aae-4e1b-4e03-8b33-bd7906e1dff9 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/15fe4b81-3adf-4c3f-92b6-a35a48a9376a 29th April 2025 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/d69af9f0-2ebf-4b29-ac7d-7a381a66f00e 2nd January 2024 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1e497f97-cbe1-4702-9cc2-6559693e0c93 20th December 2023 - Future opportunity notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/fcd06aae-4e1b-4e03-8b33-bd7906e1dff9 28th June 2023 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - https://forms.office.com/e/uR6P7gGJry Microsoft Form to register attendance at the 1 August event - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/037562-2023 Related Prior Information Notice on Find a Tender Service - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/da4bc950-5bbf-47eb-802d-1e6297c16333 n/a - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/e89b8344-9bd5-4ac6-a1c1-044a195a3365 n/a - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/7955205d-6f3e-4d5f-960a-fdd2e7fe8365 n/a - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/000054-2024 Find a Tender Service contract notice corresponding to this opportunity - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/137bc38c-acc9-49fa-801e-fe41e1c38610 n/a - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/984e163f-b4ec-439b-ae17-a39c5fe59d55 n/a - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/7eb3da4e-1e50-413b-82cc-b9cc3e4fe078 n/a - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/ec0a500c-4629-455d-b0df-956c7603c4c2 n/a - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/017637-2025 Find a Tender Service award notice ## Notice URLs - https://nationalhighways.co.uk/ ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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