£300M new-style contracts awarded by Highways England

Highways England award new-style contracts worth over £300M in Cumbria,  North Lancashire, and the North East.

Highways England have awarded over £300M in four new-style contracts, which will help improve journeys for road users in Cumbria and North Lancashire, and the North East of England.

Kier Highways Limited and CH2M Costain Joint Venture have been awarded the two maintenance and response contracts expected to be worth up to £262M and last up to 15 years, as part of Highways England’s new delivery arrangements.

The contracts, which will start on 1 April 2017, will see Kier Highways Limited operating in Cumbria and CH2M Costain Joint Venture operating in the North East, delivering routine highway maintenance services, repairs to defects, emergency incident response and severe weather services on the Highways England road network.

The new way of working will see  Highways England directly managing both routine maintenance and the delivery of capital renewal and improvement schemes, bringing key functions in-house and taking greater control of the road networks.

The first of these types of contracts began operation in the East Midland’s region in July this year.

Amey OW Limited have been awarded two new five-year design contracts, with an expected value of over £38M, for both the Cumbria and North Lancashire, and the North East areas.

David Poole, Executive Director for commercial and procurement at Highways England, said: “We are delighted to welcome Kier Highways Limited, CH2M Costain Joint Venture and Amey OW Limited to our Asset Delivery supply chain community in Cumbria and North Lancashire and the North East. The awarding of these four new contracts builds on the new way of working already taking place in the East Midlands and is a real change in the way we have previously operated the network. These contracts demonstrate our commitment to increasing capability and understanding within Highways England and bringing Highways England closer to our customers.

“Collaboration with our supply chain is key to our new way of working and we are looking forward to establishing a successful, long-term relationship with the appointed contractors.”

The Asset Delivery maintenance and response, and design services contracts will commence in these areas when the current Managing Agent Contracts with A-one+ in the North East and Kier in Cumbria and North Lancashire come to an end.

Highways England will be working with the successful contractors to ensure that they are ready to begin delivering key services from 1 April 2017.

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