Highway maintenance work

Tender description

Highways England is looking for a suitable contractor to provide and undertake all cyclical and routine maintenance, incident response, defect rectification and severe weather delivery on the all-purpose trunk roads and motorways within Hampshire, Surrey, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and part of Buckinghamshire, not including the M25, (Highways England Area 3). Duties will also include maintenance of roadside technology, the provision of traffic management for the contractor's maintenance and incident response activities (including traffic management for others), where instructed by Highways England and the maintenance of depots. Under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 the contractor will be principal contractor for all work they undertake and where/if instructed otherwise by Highways England. The successful tenderer will be required to provide all cyclical and reactive maintenance, incident response, defect rectification (when instructed by Highways England) and severe weather delivery on the all-purpose trunk roads and motorways within Hampshire, Surrey, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Dorset, Wiltshire and part of Buckinghamshire, not including the M25, (Highways England South-East Region Area 3), in accordance to Highways England standards and objectives. Duties will include maintenance of roadside technology, the provision of traffic management for the contractor's maintenance and incident response activities (including traffic management for others) where instructed by Highways England, and the maintenance of depots. Under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 the contractor will be principal contractor for all work they undertake and where/if instructed otherwise by Highways England. Highways England may consider amending the duties listed above as appropriate during the contract period. The service period for the maintenance and response contract is for a duration of 8 years, and the successful provider will be expected to operate collaboratively with other service providers and stakeholders in order to achieve Highways England’s objectives.