Five firms have been invited to tender for the Highways Agency’s Asset Support Contract (ASC) in Area 9 which includes Birmingham and the West Midlands. The teams selected following a prequalification process are:

• Carillion
• Balfour Beatty/Mott MacDonald
• Atkins/Skanska
• Amey
• Enterprise Mouchel

ASCs are the latest generation of the Highways Agency’s maintenance contracts and are replacing the Managing Agent Contracts. The key difference is that contractors now commit to achieving outcomes rather than meeting a detailed and prescriptive specification which creates freedom to innovate. ASCs also cover work up to £5M rather than than the MAC limit of £500,000.

ASC9 will cover routes within the counties of Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire and Shropshire as well as the Metropolitan Boroughs of Walsall, Sandwell and Dudley and the City of Birmingham. The current MAC incumbent is Amey.

Tenders are currently being assessed for Areas 6 (East Anglia), 8 (North of London) and 3 (West of London).

More information can be found in the current edition of Transportation Professional.

Caption: Bushley viaduct – a crucial structure on the M50 which from forms part of Area 9

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