The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council is advertising a highway services contract divided into four lots and worth a total of nearly £140m.
Bidders can apply for between one and three lots but cannot apply for Lot 1 and Lot 3 together as the council wants to keep these services separate.
The lots are:
- Lot 1 Highway Maintenance and Capital Works, worth £112m
- Lot 2 Street Cleansing, worth £21m
- Lot 3 Highway, Transport and Bridge Professional Services, worth £5.6m
- Lot 4 Traffic Signals and ITS Maintenance, worth £0.7m
The core highway maintenance contract includes support for special events
Each lot will run for a maximum of 14 years, based on an initial seven years with an option for two extensions – the first extension is for four years and the second for three years, although the contract notice states that Lot 3 is for a duration of 168 days.
Lot 1 is described as the core reactive, routine, and planned highway maintenance services contract and will include:
- co-ordination and programme of highway repairs
- general civil engineering projects including cycleways, footway maintenance, drainage infrastructure and safety barriers and integrated transport schemes
- responding to highway incidents, emergency or safety defects following customer reports including structures
- emergency response 24/7 including on-call availability
- high friction surfacing, lining and other surface treatments (including replacement of markings as appropriate
- routine, reactive and planned maintenance of safety barriers
- winter service (including route planning provision of staff and vehicles)
- drainage inspections and inspections for minor repairs/projects and works programming
- support for special events
- collaboration with all other service lot providers
- streetworks permitting, including road closures, footpath closures, parking suspensions and works related to section 81 and other streetworks regulations
Potential bidders can express an interest via the eSourcing portal.
The deadline for receipt of tenders is 1pm on 4 July, with tenders opened two hours later.
The council's current highway maintenance supplier, VolkerHighways, has been in place since 2017, initially on a five-year deal but now on a two-year extension until March 2024.
VolkerHighways installed the first phase of hostile vehicle measures at six locations around Windsor.
