Telecommunications services

Tender description

As per the Contract Notice, this contract is for the provision, operation, and maintenance of telecommunications services between the roadside and various central locations for Highways England, the body responsible for England's motorway and trunk road network. Whilst the authority for National Roads Telecommunications Service (NRTS2) project is Highways England Company Limited (and any future successor to this organisation), the Secretary of State for Transport will be a named beneficiary of the NRTS2 contract as some of the assets/contracts to which the NRTS2 services relate are in the name of the Secretary of State (e.g. those relating to the M6 toll motorway and the Severn River Crossing). The scope of the NRTS2 contract includes the maintenance, deployment and further development of the NRTS services which currently provide services to approximately 30,000 locations on 3,500km of motorways and trunk roads, which provide connectivity between control centers and roadside devices. A broad indication of the breakdown of the value of the contract by type of work (indicative only) is: — management, operations, and field maintenance workforce - 25 to 45 %, — supply, design, and installation of equipment and systems - 45 to 65 %, — others (cable installation, traffic management, and civil engineering works) - up to 10 %.