Kier Highways Limited has been awarded a £40million contract as
part of Highways England’s new delivery arrangements in the South
West.
This is the first of a number of Asset Delivery contracts in the
South West which sees Highways England changing its way of
working and delivering the Government’s record £15 billion
investment to improve and maintain the country’s motorways and
major A roads.
Highways England will now take direct responsibility for managing
both routine maintenance and the delivery of capital renewal and
improvement schemes.
The new arrangements will bring a number of key decision-making
functions in-house and see Highways England taking greater
control over the future of the network, ultimately ensuring the
smooth functioning of its South West major roads.
The award of this and future contracts allows Highways England to
directly engage with our supply chain, to drive down cost and
waste, whilst providing the best possible value for money for tax
payers, and service for our customers.
The contract will run for up to five years and focusses on design
– it will see Kier taking design briefs and turning them into
well-defined packages of work.
Duties will include preparing technical designs and undertaking
supporting work for capital renewal projects and improvements to
produce a solution that is ready for construction, and to design
briefs to repair major roads and get them back running as normal
after incidents will also form part of the work.
David Poole, Executive Director for commercial and procurement at
Highways England, said:
We are delighted that Kier Highways Limited will be part of our
new Asset Delivery supply chain community across the South West.
This contract not only builds on the new way of working already
taking place in the East Midlands and North of England but also
demonstrates our ongoing commitment to increasing Highways
England’s capability and control over the whole road network.
Andrew Page-Dove, Regional Director for the South West, said:
Kier Highways currently operates a number of key support
contracts and we are confident that this award will build upon
our existing successful relationship and deliver a high quality
service throughout the South West. We look forward to working
with them.
Future awards will include a range of suppliers being appointed
in April to the new framework for delivering construction works
and a contract will be awarded in March for the maintenance and
response contract, both of which will help to deliver the designs
provided by Kier Highways.
Highways England will now begin working with Kier Highways to
ensure that they are ready to begin delivering key design
services from 1 July 2017.
