Business and management consultancy and related services

Tender description

Procurement of the highways development management consultancy support that has local knowledge of transport issues within Buckinghamshire. The scale and nature of growth in Buckinghamshire and the number of national highway infrastructure projects in the area means that there is a need for responsive and specialist highways development management consultancy support to supplement the existing expertise in the highways development management team. The contract spend is estimated at 350 000 GBP per annum. This is only an estimate and the actual spend maybe higher or lower than this figure. Procurement of the highways development management consultancy support that has local knowledge of transport issues within Buckinghamshire. The scale and nature of growth in Buckinghamshire and the number of national highway infrastructure projects in the area means that there is a need for responsive and specialist highways development management consultancy support to supplement the existing expertise in the highways development management team. Buckinghamshire is an area of increased housing growth with an identified 45 000 new homes required to be delivered across the County by 2023 as identified in Buckinghamshire’s 5 Local Plans. In addition there are significant national highway infrastructure projects that affect the Council such as: High Speed 2, East West Rail, Western Rail Access to Heathrow and Oxford to Cambridge Express Way and growth arc. The highways development management team is consulted on over 3 000 applications each year from the five local planning authorities in Buckinghamshire and have a national target to respond to 72 % of all planning applications within 21 days. The team also input into strategic plans such as local plans. Therefore, in order to fulfil these obligations there is a necessity for specialist highways development support in times of increase application demand and specialist support for more complicated developments, MDAs, major infrastructure projects and provide expert witness support at enquiries. The team are looking for a consultancy that has a proven track record in providing highways development management consultancy support at the highest level.