Specialist vehicles

Tender description

Highways England is responsible for maintenance of the strategic road network across England. We intend to launch a competition under the Open Procedure in early December 2018 for the provision of a specialist survey vehicle to carry out road structural condition surveys at traffic speed; provision and completion of acceptance testing of the vehicle; provision of training, support and maintenance of the measurement system over a period of 5 years. Detailed information on the requirement will be made available on Highways England's e-Sourcing portal following publication of a Contract Notice. Highways England commission annual structural condition surveys of the strategic road network using the TRASS (Traffic Speed Structural Surveys) contract. These surveys have enabled Highways England to reduce the need for slow speed structural assessment. Highways England is to procure a next generation Structural Assessment Tool at Traffic Speed (SATTS) Device to assist in the research and development of traffic speed structural surveys, to ultimately remove the requirement for slow speed surveys of structural condition. The Supplier will be required: — To provide a Device that measures the full deflection response of a pavement to a rolling load at traffic speed, — To undertake and satisfy acceptance testing requirements for the Device, — Provide training, support, annual maintenance and servicing of the measurement system of the Device for 5 years.