How to win: Highways Maintenance and Improvement

About this contract

Bath & North East Somerset Council ("the Council") currently delivers a comprehensive highways service through a term maintenance arrangement covering routine and reactive maintenance, planned preventative maintenance, surfacing works, small improvement schemes, drainage, structures and associated highway assets. This contract is due to expire in 2029. The Council will shortly undertake an Early Market Engagement exercise in advance of the reprocurement of its Highway Term Maintenance Contract (TMC) in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023, which is anticipated to commence in April 2029. The purpose of the engagement (to follow) is to inform the Council's approach to the scope, structure and packaging of the future contract, test market appetite and capacity, understand the commercial and operational implications of potential service delivery models and ensure the future arrangements are attractive to the market, being deliverable and capable of providing value for money.

How to win contracts like this

• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Bath & North East Somerset Council scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓Lead with evidenced capability and social value — for works work these usually outweigh price.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar works contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: deadlines are tight and a strong bid takes iteration.

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