Balfour Beatty and Mott MacDonald secure contract expansion for Area 10

Highways England has awarded a £115 million ($152 million) asset support contract extension of 17 months to Balfour Beatty and Mott MacDonald to continue its service delivery for Area 10; covering Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester. The contract will run from November 2017 to March 2019. The current asset support contract delivers a range of service delivery and maintenance activities such as 24/7 incident response, to ensuring the safe operation of the 570km of the road network.
October 17, 2017 Read time: 1 min

8101 Highways England has awarded a £115 million ($152 million) asset support contract extension of 17 months to 3902 Balfour Beatty and 1869 Mott MacDonald to continue its service delivery for Area 10; covering Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester. The contract will run from November 2017 to March 2019.
 
The current asset support contract delivers a range of service delivery and maintenance activities such as 24/7 incident response, to ensuring the safe operation of the 570km of the road network.

The contract extension will enable both companies to employ a further four apprentices within the project’s Maintenance and Response teams.

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