How to win: Highways – Audit & Asset Management (A&AM) Contract

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Westminster City Council (the Council) is seeking to appoint a single, independent supplier to deliver the Highways Audit & Asset Management (A&AM) Contract. The supplier will provide audit and compliance services, asset management services and other professional services supporting the Council's Highways & Public Realm Contract. The A&AM supplier will provide objective scrutiny, assurance and challenge and must remain operationally and professionally independent from the Highways & Public Realm contractor. • audit of performance information, contractual compliance and delivery against the Highways & Public Realm Contract; • commercial and cost assurance, including review of estimates, applications, final accounts, compensation events, Price List items, indexation and volume rebate calculations where specified; • technical assurance, inspections, design reviews, defects and compliance audits; • asset-management strategy, inventory and data assurance, planned preventative maintenance programme development, BCI calculations and statutory/industry data reporting; • responsible procurement, social value and carbon-reduction requirements, including assurance of relevant Highways & Publi

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Westminster City Council scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £2,575,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 9 October 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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