Management-related services

Tender description

Highways England wish to procure the following services: Strategic Procurement Business Partner(s) to provide capability and capacity to the in-house procurement teams. Highways England wish to procure a Procurement Strategic Business Partner to work with Highways England Procurement and Commercial team. Providing capacity and capability to the in-house team, enabling greater strength in depth, industry experience and new ideas to ensure Highways England procure contracts to leading edge procurement practice and programme milestones. The Strategic Partner will primarily focus on delivery of BAU and tactical contracts, allowing Highways England permanent staff to focus on high value awards. These contracts include uniforms, insurance, RIP and SMP schemes to be awarded in advance of new RTM contracts, Salt purchases and support to wider Highways England innovations and initiatives along with the additional contractual assurance, development and commercial validation that will be required. Delivery outcome spans a range of directorates from Major Projects, Smart Motorways, RIP, Safety and Engineering Standards, Strategy and Planning, Communications, ITD, HR, Facilities and Legal all of which require procurement expertise and support to affect the increased level of spend into outsourced contracts that are compliant.