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title: "Highway Maintenance, Design, Construction and Other Services - CPU 455."
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-029cb8"
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buyer: "OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL"
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# Highway Maintenance, Design, Construction and Other Services - CPU 455.

Buyer: OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-029cb8

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## Summary

The Oxfordshire County Council has completed a procurement process for a Highways Maintenance Contract under the title "Highway Maintenance, Design, Construction and Other Services - CPU 455." classified under the construction industry. This process took place in the region of Oxford (UKJ14), where the contract will provide essential services such as highway maintenance, design, and transport planning consultancy. The contract was initially awarded to Atkins Limited, effective from 1 April 2010, with the possibility of extensions, the last of which resulted in a contract expiry at the end of March 2023. Following a corporate restructuring, the contract has been novated to Milestone Infrastructure Limited. The award procedure followed a limited procurement method, bypassing the need for prior public competition, and the council anticipates a contract signing following a ten-day standstill period from the notice publication date, 17 March 2021.

This procurement presents significant opportunities for businesses, especially those in the construction and maintenance sectors, including firms specialising in highway services, transport planning consultancy, and construction engineering. Companies equipped to handle large-scale maintenance projects and those with prior experience in managing essential public works contracts will find strategic advantages in this procurement process. The estimated value of the contract bids ranged from £97 million to £166 million, indicating the scale of the services required and the potential for business growth and partnerships stemming from successful bidding.

## Notice

The Highways Contract is for the contractor to develop, with the Council, a high performing comprehensive highways service. The Highways Contract encompasses highway maintenance, design, construction, transport planning consultancy, with other services including but not limited to vehicle and grounds maintenance. On 13 July 2010 the Council entered into the Highways Contract with Atkins Limited ("Atkins") to provide the above works following a tender process commenced by contract notice 2008/S 210-279078 dated 29 October 2008. The Highways Contract is for a contract period of 10 years commencing 1 April 2010, extendable by up to a further 10 years. So far, the contract has been extended by three years so that the contract period expires end of March 2023. The values set out at II.2.7 of this VEAT Notice represent the estimated remaining value of the Highways Contract across the possible remaining term. Atkins contracted to sell its highways maintenance business to Skanska Construction UK Limited ("Skanska"). The sale proceeded by way of an asset sale and included the plant and equipment required to operate the highways maintenance business of Atkins, the transfer of leases or rights to use properties and facilities previously used by the highways maintenance business, and the transfer of approximately 1,200 employees, including around 80 in the central management and business support functions. It also included the transfer of customer contracts, including the Highways Contract with the Council. The Highways Contract between the Council and Atkins permitted assignment by Atkins of the benefit of the Contract with the consent of the Council. Atkins requested consent to assign the benefit of the Contract to Skanska and the Council consented to such assignment. The Highways Contract also provided that the original Provider should remain legally responsible for performance of the Contract, even if the benefit of the Contract is assigned. The Council relied on this provision. A VEAT notice was published in OJEU. Skanska have contracted to sell its highways maintenance business to Milestone Infrastructure Limited. The sale will proceed by way of an asset sale, and will include plant and equipment required to operate the highways maintenance business of Skanska, the transfer of leases or rights to use properties and facilities previously used by the highways maintenance business, and the transfer of approximately 1,200 employees, including around 80 in the central management and business support functions. It also includes the transfer of customer contracts, including the Highways Contract with the Council.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

The Highways Contract is for the contractor to develop, with the Council, a high performing comprehensive highways service. The Highways Contract encompasses highway maintenance, design, construction, transport planning consultancy, with other services including but not limited to vehicle and grounds maintenance. On 13 July 2010 the Council entered into the Highways Contract with Atkins Limited ("Atkins") to provide the above works following a tender process commenced by contract notice 2008/S 210-279078 dated 29 October 2008. The Highways Contract is for a contract period of 10 years commencing 1 April 2010, extendable by up to a further 10 years. So far, the contract has been extended by three years so that the contract period expires end of March 2023. The values set out at II.2.7 of this VEAT Notice represent the estimated remaining value of the Highways Contract across the possible remaining term. Atkins contracted to sell its highways maintenance business to Skanska Construction UK Limited ("Skanska"). The sale proceeded by way of an asset sale and included the plant and equipment required to operate the highways maintenance business of Atkins, the transfer of leases or rights to use properties and facilities previously used by the highways maintenance business, and the transfer of approximately 1,200 employees, including around 80 in the central management and business support functions. It also included the transfer of customer contracts, including the Highways Contract with the Council. The Highways Contract between the Council and Atkins permitted assignment by Atkins of the benefit of the Contract with the consent of the Council. Atkins requested consent to assign the benefit of the Contract to Skanska and the Council consented to such assignment. The Highways Contract also provided that the original Provider should remain legally responsible for performance of the Contract, even if the benefit of the Contract is assigned. The Council relied on this provision. A VEAT notice was published in OJEU. Skanska have contracted to sell its highways maintenance business to Milestone Infrastructure Limited. The sale will proceed by way of an asset sale, and will include plant and equipment required to operate the highways maintenance business of Skanska, the transfer of leases or rights to use properties and facilities previously used by the highways maintenance business, and the transfer of approximately 1,200 employees, including around 80 in the central management and business support functions. It also includes the transfer of customer contracts, including the Highways Contract with the Council.

### Procurement Information

This Voluntary Transparency Notice gives notice that Oxfordshire County Council (the "Council") intends to enter into a contract in the form of a Deed of Novation (the "Deed of Novation") to novate an underlying public works contract (the "Contract") to Milestone Infrastructure Limited ("Milestone"). The Council considers the effect of entering into the Deed of Novation to be a permitted modification to the Contract under regulation 72 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and, as such, does not require a separate procurement procedure. In particular, the novation to Milestone falls within the safe harbour at regulation 72(1)(d) on the basis that a new contractor replaces the one to which the Council had initially awarded the Contract. More specifically: 1. Milestone is replacing the original contractor following a corporate restructuring in the form of a business sale to Milestone. This business sale has the consequence of the universal succession of Milestone into the position of the initial contractor (within the meaning of regulation 72(1)(d)(ii)); 2. Milestone fulfils the criteria for qualitative selection initially established in the procurement of Contract; and 3. The novation of the Contract to Milestone does not entail any other substantial modifications to the contract, and is not aimed at circumventing the application of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. For the reasons set out in this notice, the modification to the Contract by way of the Deed of Novation is permitted under the Public Contract Regulations 2015, and a new procurement procedure is not required. The Council has not yet entered into the Deed of Novation but intends to do so as soon as practicable following a ten day standstill period starting from the date after publication of this notice.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005447-2021 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Works |
| Procurement method | Limited |
| Procurement method details | Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 17 Mar 2021 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 17 Mar 2021 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL |
| Locality | OXFORD |
| Post town | Oxford |
| Postcode | OX1 1ND |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLJ South East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLJ1 Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire |
| ITL 3 | TLJ14 Oxfordshire CC |
| Local authority | Oxford |
| Electoral ward | Osney & St Thomas |
| Westminster constituency | Oxford West and Abingdon |
| Delivery location | TLJ14 Oxfordshire CC |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | MILESTONE INFRASTRUCTURE |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 45 - Construction work
- 50 - Repair and maintenance services
- 71 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
- 77 - Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services

### Codes

- 45000000 - Construction work
- 45221100 - Construction work for bridges
- 50000000 - Repair and maintenance services
- 50100000 - Repair, maintenance and associated services of vehicles and related equipment
- 71000000 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
- 77000000 - Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services

## Release History

- 17 Mar 2021 at 16:40 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005447-2021

## Notice URLs

- http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk

## Provenance

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