BHCC JB Highways Services Contracts

The Council is seeking professional, properly defined and priced propositions from suitably qualified and interested organisations for the provision of Highways Services. The scope of the services required is being procured under three lots being: Lot 1 – Civil Works and Improvements. Lot 2 - Highways Safety Maintenance, Operations and Small Pavement Works.

Lot 3 - Road Lining and Studs Works. The framework agreement will be broken into three different contracts. Lot 1 is a Framework with 3 providers.

Lot 2 is a Framework with 1 provider. Lot 3 is a Framework with 1 provider. The framework agreement will be a 4-year initial contract period with possible extensions arrangement (4 + 2 + 2) for all Lots, extendable based on performance.

Lewes District and Eastbourne Borough Councils (one combined authority) can use Lot 1. A prior information notice (PIN) was issued on 5 November 2021 and the reference is 2021/S 000-027787.

Such schemes by their nature are varied in type, volume, and timing. The Council is seeking 3 suppliers with the ability to direct award contracts worth under £125,000 and award through mini competition for contracts valued in excess of that sum.Lot 1 requirements are for the provision of activities under title of ‘Civils Works and Improvements’ within the administrative area of Brighton and Hove; and Lewes District; and Eastbourne Borough Councils – the bulk of this work will be within Brighton and Hove and generally on the public highway. The works will be of varying size and nature; no guarantee can be given of any works being issued. The services will provide the civil engineering element of highway and coastal maintenance works, environmental enhancement projects, traffic management works and traffic signal alterations within a constrained city centre environment. This Lot of the Framework Contract will additionally provide for the resurfacing and reconstruction elements of the structural highway maintenance programme. The Supplier may be required to occasionally work off the public highway in the city’s open spaces.