Highways Material Testing & Laboratory Support 2017-18

Liverpool City Council Liverpool City Council is to conduct a procurement exercise to appoint a competent supplier to undertake a wide range of materials testing and laboratory support services. The service will mainly support the Council's annual highway improvement and maintenance work programmes and as such will involve the testing of bituminous mixtures, aggregates, soils and concretes and will involve laboratory and on site compliance testing.

This service will provide technical support to the Highways and Transportation Services directorate, including specification and on-site monitoring of the quality of materials, processes, and workmanship delivered to the Council. General Requirements:-The contract is to provide a service for the testing of highway materials to Liverpool City Council.

All source approval testing must be carried out in accordance with the:- • Specification for highway Works Volume 1, • the relevant current BS / BS EN standards and • the materials must comply with the requirements of the Council's specification Testing Specifications:- The laboratory Consultant undertaking the material testing must be UKAS accredited to:- BS EN 933 for the testing of Geometrical Properties of Aggregates; BS EN 1377 for the testing of Soils for Civil Engineering Purpose; BS EN 12350 for the sampling and testing of concrete; BS EN 12390 for the measuring on concrete strength; BS EN 12697 for the testing of Bituminous Mixtures for Roads and other paved areas. In addition to the above, Plate Bearing, Nuclear Density, Pavement Texture, Surface Irregularity and other on-site testing will be required.

Suppliers: where applicable, must provide evidence of the UKAS accreditation for their laboratory. All services supplied under this Contract shall conform to the requirements of BSI standards or other accredited standards, UK or EU, relating (but not limited) to; their production, preparation, handling, safety and labelling as may be in force during the period of the Contract.