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Essex Highways Maintenance Contract

  • Essex County Council

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Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-068984

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-04fc31 (view related notices)

Published 9 June 2025, 11:21am

Last edited 28 October 2025, 1:50pm

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* UPDATE 28 OCT 2025: Essex County Council's Cabinet decision to approve the procurement of a new Highway Service contract has been "called in". This means that the procurement is not able to proceed until the call in has been heard by the Council's Place Services and Economic Growth Policy and Scrutiny Committee at a future date. We will be in touch following the Committee meeting when we will provide a further update on the tender publication.*

Scope

Reference

C001PA

Description

Essex County Council's (the Council) current Highways Strategic Transformation Contract (Highways Contract) ends on the 31 March 2027. ECC is subsequently seeking a Contractor to maintain the County's highways and other associated assets in accordance with responsibilities under the Highways Act 1980, from 1 April 2027.

The Contractor will undertake reactive and planned maintenance, that delivers best value with the resources available, across all of ECC's highway network and on all highway assets. This will include design and delivery of improvement schemes. The Contractor will deliver the service in line with the Client's corporate policies and strategic plans, and will support communities and the local economy through network maintenance and improvement to meet the Client's growth agenda and related plans and strategies. The Contractor will be expected to proactively embrace and implement best practice, innovations and new technologies enabling the service to continually improve.

Total value (estimated)

  • £2,500,000,000 excluding VAT
  • £3,000,000,000 including VAT

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 April 2027 to 31 March 2034
  • 7 years

Main category

Works

CPV classifications

  • 45233000 - Construction, foundation and surface works for highways, roads
  • 50230000 - Repair, maintenance and associated services related to roads and other equipment
  • 71000000 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

Contract locations

  • UKH3 - Essex

Submission

Publication date of tender notice (estimated)

31 October 2025

Procedure

Procedure type

Competitive flexible procedure

Above or below total value threshold

Above or equal to threshold

Contracting authority

Essex County Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PWVM-4844-NRQH

County Hall, Market Road

Chelmsford

CM1 1QH

United Kingdom

Email: FHP.Team@essex.gov.uk

Region: UKH36 - Heart of Essex

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government