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R&W Civil Engineering wins contract to improve M25, UK

R&W Civil Engineering has been awarded a place on the second Call-Off Framework Agreement (COFA-2), potentially valued £100m ($134m), to deliver improvement works on the UK’s M25 and associated motorways. The contract will run for six years and is procured and managed by Connect Plus on behalf of Highways England. It will also be delivered by Skanska, Osbourne, Jackson.
December 4, 2017 Read time: 2 mins
R&W Civil Engineering has been awarded a place on the second Call-Off Framework Agreement (COFA-2), potentially valued £100m ($134m), to deliver improvement works on the UK’s M25 and associated motorways. The contract will run for six years and is procured and managed by Connect Plus on behalf of 8101 Highways England. It will also be delivered by 7136 Skanska, Osbourne, Jackson.


The M25 contract roads includes 440km of road network, five tunnels and over 750 bridges and carries 15% of all UK road motorway traffic.

Connect Plus was awarded the Design, Build, Finance & Operate Contract in 2009 and is responsible for providing operating and maintenance services, lifecycle renewals and improvement works on the Project Road, which includes strategic road links in and out of London.
 
Mark Hepburn, R&W operations director and framework director for COFA-2) said: “We are thrilled to be awarded a place on the COFA framework and very much look forward to working with the rest of the M25 Community to deliver improvements on this strategic part of the road network.”

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