Ringway, which has been taking a look after Hertfordshire’s highways since October 2012, will proceed to care for the county’s highway community till no less than 2032 having received the renewal delicate.
The brand new contract, which is able to get started from 1st October 2025, will center of attention on bettering the operational supply of daily services and products reminiscent of highway repairs, solving potholes, boulevard lighting fixtures and sign upkeep, responding to emergencies and working the seasonal gritting, grass reducing and growth schemes.
The contract can be versatile to evolve to the council’s priorities and to be had investment however may well be price greater than £55m a yr over its preliminary seven-year time period, with attainable contract extensions thereafter. The unique contract understand final yr put the contract price at just about £2bn over its attainable 21-year time period.
Hertfordshire has 5,100 km of carriageways, 5,500 km of footways and cycleways, 115,000 of boulevard lighting fixtures and 168,000 gullies.
Vinci subsidiary Ringway noticed off festival for the contract from Kier and Milestone, who have been additionally shortlisted.
Jacobs is the county’s skilled services and products provider for highways, having taken over from WSP-Arup final yr underneath a 14-year deal.
Cllr Phil Bibby, govt member for highways and Delivery at Hertfordshire County Council stated: “Whilst we had 3 superb bids, Ringway’s imaginative and prescient for an cutting edge, knowledge pushed carrier, interested by environment friendly and efficient operational supply for our citizens, sealed the deal. The commitments they made with regards to trialling new fuels, introducing extra electrical automobiles to their fleets and the usage of recyclable fabrics the place imaginable will pass a protracted option to supporting us in our cleaner, greener, and more healthy ambitions.”
Ringway managing director Mitesh Solanki stated: “This contract award is testomony to the ongoing excellence of our crew that delivers the present freeway services and products in Hertfordshire, with such pastime and pleasure. Credit score is going to the efforts of those that put in combination the bid with beef up from many portions of our wider team – they challenged us to conform a sustainable and cutting edge 21-year imaginative and prescient for the freeway carrier for Hertfordshire and we’re happy to had been awarded an preliminary core seven-year contract with the possibility of an larger time period past. We’re all excited to paintings in opposition to a continuing ‘one carrier’ way, operating collaboratively with different carrier suppliers and handing over the most productive carrier imaginable for Hertfordshire.”
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