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title: "Area 7 Maintenance & Response Contract"
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# Area 7 Maintenance & Response Contract

Buyer: NATIONAL HIGHWAYS  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0585b9

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## Summary

The procurement process for the "Area 7 Maintenance & Response Contract" has been concluded by National Highways, a national agency based in Guildford, United Kingdom. This contract pertains to highway maintenance work, categorized under the 'works' industry. The project is located in the East Midlands Region, including parts of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, and other areas. The procurement is at the award stage, with a Deed of Variation adding a section of the A50 to the existing contract. The contract value has increased by 32% to approximately £557,390,000, and the new contract end date is set to 1st July 2029. The process did not involve a prior call for competition, adhering to permissible grounds under Regulation 72 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

This tender offers substantial opportunities for growth, particularly for businesses involved in highway maintenance and response services. Companies with expertise in construction work for highways, road maintenance, surface work, and engineering services are well-suited to compete in future procurements. The inclusion of additional roadwork within the existing Area 7 contract under National Highways could create extended subcontracting opportunities, particularly for those specializing in maintenance, incident response, and severe weather delivery. Businesses capable of operating under existing contract terms and pricing without altering economic balance are positioned to capitalise on the extended scope of this high-value contract, ensuring continuity of service on the Strategic Road Network.

## Notice

This VEAT Notice relates to a Deed of Variation to a National Highways' Maintenance and Response Contract. This Contract currently provides and undertakes all cyclical and reactive maintenance, incident response, defect rectification and severe weather delivery on the trunk roads and motorways within Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, part of Warwickshire, Rutland and part of Oxfordshire (Area 7 East Midlands Region) (the "Contract"). Duties also include maintenance of roadside technology, the provision of traffic management for the contractor, maintenance and incident response activities, and traffic management for others who may be working on the network. The variation will add a new section of the A50 into the Contract (covering half of the A50, Eastbound from the Toyota roundabout) which is currently maintained under a Design Build Finance & Operate ("DBFO") contract which is due to expire on 30th June 2026. Consequently the total value of the Contract will increase by approximately 32%. It will also shorten the Contract which will have a new end date of 1st July 2029 instead of 30th June 2031 in order to align with the procurement process for the next Maintenance & Response Contracts.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

A Design Build Finance Operate (DBFO) contract covers half of the A50 to the Toyota roundabout from the east and expires on 30th June 2026. National Highways therefore must appoint an alternative maintenance contractor and it considers that the scope of these works is already included within this existing Maintenance and Response Contract which is adjacent geographically. Therefore these roads will be incorporated into this existing Maintenance and Response (M&R) Contract for Area 7 of the Strategic Road Network following the award of the Deed of Variation. This together with the need for national alignment of the expiry dates for all of the M&R contracts, ready for their re-procurement, means that the term of the Area 7 M&R Contract will be shortened and will have a new end date of 1st July 2029 instead of 30th June 2031. The new estimated total Contract value will be PS 557,390,000.

### Procurement Information

The modifications to the Contract fall within the permissible grounds set out under Regulation 72(1)(e) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in that the modifications are not substantial within the meaning of Regulation 72(8) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 because: The inclusion of Design Build Finance and Operate (DBFO) roads into the Contract does not render the Contract materially different compared to when it was originally procured. The type of work originally required of the Contract (i.e. maintenance and response) is the same as that which it will carry out on the previous DBFO stretches of the Strategic Road Network, it is just a case that the total lane coverage to be maintained under the Contract increases. Adding the additional roads would not have changed the outcome of the original procurement in any way. The Contract will be fully operated in accordance with their current terms and pricing; As the current Contract will be operated for the new roads on the same terms and pricing, this does not alter the economic balance of the Contract in favour of the contractor; The change does not considerably alter the scope of the Contract as the works and services provided will remain unchanged and the roads have been included in this Contract because they are adjacent in terms of geographical scope also. Any increase in scope is also mitigated by a shortening in Contract term; This is not a change in contractor. In addition, National Highways also considers that the exemption at Regulation 72(1)(b) would in any event apply. This permits additional services or supplies that have become necessary and were not included in the initial procurement where a change of contractor cannot be made for economic or technical reasons and another supplier/procurement would cause significant inconvenience or substantial duplication of costs for the contracting authority; and where any increase in price does not exceed 50% of the value of the original Contract. The Deed of Variation ensures continuity of service on the Strategic Road Network and aligns with National Highways' wider asset delivery and procurement strategy, thereby safeguarding public value and network integrity. The Contract is being shortened to better align with the re-procurement strategy for all Maintenance & Response contracts. It would provide significant technical difficulties and duplication of procurement costs for National Highways to procure a contractor simply for this short stretch of network given the current re-procurement strategy.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/047886-2025 |
| 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 | 12 Aug 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 14 Mar 2016 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £557,390,000 |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NATIONAL HIGHWAYS |
| Locality | GUILDFORD |
| Post town | Guildford |
| Postcode | GU1 4LZ |
| 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 | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | AMEY HIGHWAYS |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 45 - Construction work
- 71 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

### Codes

- 45233130 - Construction work for highways
- 45233139 - Highway maintenance work
- 45233140 - Roadworks
- 45233141 - Road-maintenance works
- 45233210 - Surface work for highways
- 45310000 - Electrical installation work
- 71300000 - Engineering services

## Release History

- 12 Aug 2025 at 09:06 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/047886-2025

## Notice URLs

- http://www.nationalhighways.co.uk
- https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:164610-2015:TEXT:EN:HTML

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