Contractors have until 28 May to register interest in a £68.4m highways and footway reactive maintenance term contract being procured by the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton.
The initial contract, which will start in October and run until the end of September 2031, is valued at £54m over five years.
The agreement will include the potential for three one-year extensions based on meeting agreed key performance indicators, which would take the value up to £68.4m over eight years.
Bids will be evaluated on the basis of 50% price, 35% quality, and 15% social value and a contract award decision is scheduled for 20 July 2026.
Works on the contract known as HM10 will include footway maintenance and reconstruction, carriageway repairs, including patching, resurfacing, and reinstatement of road markings, maintaining road restraint systems, highway drainage works, trial pits and utility searches, site testing and pump inspection.
Sefton Council is also preparing to start procurement on a number of other highways-related annual service contracts starting with a resurfacing agreement, HM1, which will come up for grabs in late May or early June.
Other contracts will follow later this year including road markings (HM2); weed control (HM3); signs & guardrail (HM4); ground maintenance (HM5); gully cleansing (HM6); surface treatments (HM8) and minor Works (HM9).
