SC220055 Highway Condition Survey

Tender description

Kent County Council (KCC) owns and maintains a substantial highway network, with our roads and footways being by far our largest asset group. The Council must ensure it achieves the most value and the best long-term condition for its road and footway assets. To do this, the Council needs to understand the condition of its assets to be able to target planned works at the locations where it will deliver the most value. The Council achieve this by regularly surveying the condition of its roads and footways. The results of these surveys are used to measure and report the overall network condition, identify sites for works where it is likely to achieve the best outcomes and undertake strategic modelling of asset condition in the future. This is delivered through the Highway Condition Survey service. This covers the condition surveys themselves, the analysis of the survey data including scheme modelling, the provision and hosting of the data/pavement management system used to host and analyse the data. The service is currently commissioned together through the Highway Condition Survey Contract. The service is due to end later this year and therefore the Council are now reviewing the commissioning of these services, to ensure they are appropriate and structured in the best way to achieve its organisation goals. Lot 1: Procurement process: The Councils intention is to use Competitive Procedure with Negotiation for this procurement process. The Selection Questionnaire is estimated to be released in April 2022, with the ITT following in due course. Further details will be released via the Kent Business Portal. Market engagement: As part of this process, we intend to conduct some market engagement meetings during the week commencing 14th March 2022. Please express an interest in this opportunity via the Kent Business Portal, at this stage the Market Engagement Questions will be made available. Please provide your response to the questions via the Messages facility on the Kent Business Portal, no later than 12:00 noon on 8th March 2022.