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title: "LTC-Acumen Fuse Support & Maintenance"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-077ba6"
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# LTC-Acumen Fuse Support & Maintenance

Buyer: National Highways  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-077ba6

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## Summary

National Highways Limited procured support and maintenance for Acumen Fuse, a software tool used within its Lower Thames Crossing programme. The tool assesses the quality of delivery partners’ Primavera P6 project schedules and supports project risk analysis. It helps the programme management office and project teams identify schedule issues, including gaps in task logic, excessive constraints, negative float, weaknesses in the critical path and wider schedule integrity concerns. This is software support and maintenance, rather than project scheduling services or road construction. The stated requirement relates to National Highways’ use of Acumen Fuse for independent review of partner-produced schedules.

The procurement is complete and the contract was awarded to DELTEK GB LTD. National Highways used a direct award below the procurement threshold, without competition. The contract was signed on 28 September 2026 and runs from 12 October 2026 to 31 July 2029. Its value is £21,891.16 excluding VAT (£26,269.39 including VAT). The award covered one lot, for the software package and associated support and maintenance. The published information describes the tool’s schedule-quality and project-risk functions, but gives no separate evaluation criteria; the recorded route was a non-competitive direct award. The selected supplier is Deltek GB Ltd.

For suppliers hoping to compete if National Highways buys this requirement again, the relevant capability is supplying and supporting Acumen Fuse, with a clear understanding of how it is used to assess Primavera P6 schedules. Credible providers would need to help the buyer and its project teams identify logic gaps, excessive constraints, negative float, critical-path weaknesses and other schedule-integrity problems in delivery partners’ plans. The requirement is software support and maintenance for a specific programme tool, so relevant product expertise and the capacity to sustain the software over a multi-year contract are central. The award to Deltek GB Ltd shows that the buyer selected the software provider for this direct, below-threshold purchase; it does not establish a competitive evaluation or particular qualification requirements.

## Notice

Acumen Fuse is used within LTC as a schedule quality and project risk analysis tool. It provides independent assessment of Primavera P6 schedules produced by our delivery partners, helping PMO & project teams identify issues such as logic gaps, excessive constraints, negative float, critical path weaknesses, and schedule integrity concerns.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/091494-2026 |
| Notice type | UK7 - Contract Details Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Goods |
| Procurement method | Direct |
| Procurement method details | Below threshold - without competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 28 Sep 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 12 Oct 2026 - 31 Jul 2029 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £21,891 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | National Highways |
| Locality | BIRMINGHAM |
| Postcode area | Birmingham |
| Postcode | B4 6GA |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLG West Midlands (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLG3 West Midlands |
| ITL 3 | TLG31 Birmingham |
| Local authority | Birmingham |
| Electoral ward | Ladywood |
| Westminster constituency | Birmingham Ladywood |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | DELTEK GB LIMITED |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 48 - Software package and information systems

### Codes

- 48511000 - Desktop communications software package

## Release History

- 28 Sep 2026 at 14:47 - Award - UK7 - Contract Details Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/091494-2026

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/091494-2026
  28th September 2026 - Contract details notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://nationalhighways.co.uk
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

## Provenance

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