Highways England awards latest asset delivery contract

Highways England has awarded a new-style asset delivery contract, valued at US$337 million (£270 million), which is intended to improve journeys for drivers across the south-west. The new contract has been awarded to Ringway Infrastructure Services as part of the Government’s major 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
March 23, 2017 Read time: 2 mins
8101 Highways England has awarded a new-style asset delivery contract, valued at US$337 million (£270 million), which is intended to improve journeys for drivers across the south-west.
 
The new contract has been awarded to Ringway Infrastructure Services as part of the Government’s major 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.

The maintenance and response contract will run for up to fifteen years and focuses on cyclical and incident maintenance and response across the south-west major road network for the next 15 years.
 
Duties will include severe weather service, incident response - providing timely and critical response as directed by the service manager to get major roads running as normal, and acting as principal contractor under Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.
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