Regional Delivery Partnership Technical Adviser

Tender description

Highways England seeks to appoint 6 Technical Advisers (TAs) to support delivery of the UK Road Investment Strategy (RIS) 2 schemes (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/road-investment-strategy-post-2020) through Highways England's preferred project delivery methodology Project Control Framework (PCF). TAs will recommend to Highways England the best route option and then protect its technical interests throughout development and delivery phases of a scheme. The TA will act as an enabler in its relationship with the DIP, assisting Highways England to create the environment for project success. The framework will be divided into 6 lots, with each lot having a specific value threshold for schemes and covering a defined geographical area: - lots 1 to 3 (Band A) are for schemes with a client budget of less than or equal to £100m and cover South West and Midlands (Lot 1), South East and Eat (Lot 2) and North East and North West (Lot 3) - lots 4 to 6 (Band B) are for schemes with a client budget of greater than £100m and cover South West and Midlands (Lot 4), South East and East (Lot 5) and North East and North West (Lot 6). There will be 1 tenderer appointed to each lot but there is no guarantee of any work or specific schemes from this tender process. Schemes allocated to a lot will be issued through a direct award to the successful tenderer for that lot or in circumstances specified in the procurement documents tendered as a mini-competition which may include the suppliers appointed to all lots. Successful tenderers may also have opportunities to win additional schemes in the rest of England in the circumstances specified in the procurement documents. Please note that the award of a scheme at PCF stage 1 does not guarantee it will proceed to PCF stage 7; a scheme can be withdrawn at any PCF stage in line with Highways England's governance procedures. Highways England will not allow a TA for a scheme to also be the DIP (framework) Principal Designer for any given scheme. A Market Share rule will be applied to the value of work any one TA can undertake during the framework. This value is £78m which represents 30% of the overall framework value.