{"id":841739,"date":"2025-04-18T09:12:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/dorset-council-seeks-tier-one-firm-for-240m-highways-maintenance-contract\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T09:12:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:12:56","slug":"dorset-council-seeks-tier-one-firm-for-240m-highways-maintenance-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/dorset-council-seeks-tier-one-firm-for-240m-highways-maintenance-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorset Council seeks tier one firm for \u00a3240m highways maintenance contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper_sleeve\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/05\/Motorway-roadworks_shutterstock.jpg\"   alt=\"Motorway-roadworks_shutterstock.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This story was written with AI assistance from Harmsworth<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/tech\/why-construction-news-is-using-ai-to-assist-with-our-writing-31-03-2025\/\">Who is Harmsworth?<\/a><\/p>\n<p class data-start=\"179\" data-end=\"322\">Dorset Council aims to enlist a tier one contractor to perform a 10-year highways maintenance contract.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"179\" data-end=\"322\">The council is looking for a \u201ctier one contractor with extensive experience of large construction and highway projects who can deliver a range of highway maintenance and infrastructure projects\u201d, it said in\u00a0a 17 April preliminary engagement notice.<\/p>\n<p class data-start=\"324\" data-end=\"562\">The contract is due to begin on 1 April 2027, with an optional five-year extension to 2037. It will cover both routine and project-based maintenance of roads and infrastructure across the county. The contract will be worth \u00a3240m including VAT.<\/p>\n<p class data-start=\"564\" data-end=\"842\">Dorset Council added that it would welcome comments on incentivisation, reciprocal trade, and flexibility of service delivery.<\/p>\n<p class data-start=\"844\" data-end=\"979\">Interested firms have until 7 May to complete a pre-market engagement questionnaire via the council\u2019s e-tendering portal.<\/p>\n<p class data-start=\"981\" data-end=\"1260\">The procurement process has not yet begun, but the council expects to issue tender documents in March 2026.<\/p>\n<p class data-start=\"981\" data-end=\"1260\">The current notice is intended only to gauge market interest and inform future procurement strategy. Responses will not be used to assess bidders\u2019 capabilities at tender stage.<\/p>\n<p class data-start=\"1262\" data-end=\"1448\">Clarification questions can be submitted until noon on 25 April through the Supplying the South West portal. One-to-one meetings may also be arranged to discuss feedback in more detail.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1685\" data-end=\"1735\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.find-tender.service.gov.uk\/Notice\/015926-2025?origin=SearchResults&#038;p=1\">Gov.uk Find a Tender<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/contracts\/dorset-council-signals-200m-highways-maintenance-contract-ahead-of-2027-start-17-04-2025\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Ben Vogel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story was written with AI assistance from Harmsworth Who is Harmsworth? Dorset Council aims to enlist a tier one contractor to perform a 10-year highways maintenance contract. The council is looking for a \u201ctier one contractor with extensive experience of large construction and highway projects who can deliver a range of highway maintenance and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":841740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27471,143271],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-841739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-council","8":"category-dorset"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}