Estimated Value
Up to £7,960,713,652
Deadline
26 October 2026
15 days remaining
Published
24 August 2026
Type
Not specified
Overview
This notice relates to the procurement of the Maintenance and Response 2 (M&R2) framework, which will deliver maintenance and reactive services for National Highways, across the strategic road network (SRN). The SRN is one of the biggest and most important pieces of infrastructure in the country, and is comprised of more than 4,500 miles of motorways and major A roads which are at the core of our national transport system.
The M&R2 framework will consist of seven location based lots and, following the procurement exercise, a single supplier will be appointed to deliver the services in each location. Each successful supplier will also be appointed to an overarching framework agreement, to provide resilience across the network in the event of supplier failure.
National Highways is looking for suitable suppliers to provide and undertake: - cyclical maintenance, - reactive maintenance to address urgent needs, - incident response, - severe weather operations and winter maintenance, - operational roadside technology maintenance and schemes, and - selected asset renewal works including but not limited to; road markings, soft estate, lighting, road signs, road restraint systems and fencing. Further details regarding previous market engagement events, as well as an updated presentation on our proposed strategy, can be found on the project's external sharepoint site - https://highways.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/NationalHighwaysPro... Further details regarding previous market engagement events, as well as an updated presentation on our proposed strategy, can be found on the project's external sharepoint site - https://highways.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/NationalHighwaysPro... Further contract and procurement details can be found in the conditions of participation documents published on the National Highways eSourcing Portal, specifically the Information Memorandum.
Additional details
Provision of works and services listed in Scope section of this notice for the South West location. Provision of works and services listed in Scope section of this notice for the South East location.
Provision of works and services listed in Scope section of this notice for the East location. Provision of works and services listed in Scope section of this notice for the West Midlands location.
Provision of works and services listed in Scope section of this notice for the East Midlands location. Provision of works and services listed in Scope section of this notice for the North West location. Provision of works and services listed in Scope section of this notice for the Yorkshire & North East location.
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Likely incumbents
Suppliers who won similar work from this buyer in the last 5 years.
- 1
Network Rail
6 contracts wonlatest 31 Oct 2025£1m
total awarded
- 2
Kier Highways Limited
4 contracts wonlatest 8 Sept 2025£960m
total awarded
- 3
WSP UK Limited
3 contracts wonlatest 2 Dec 2025ends 31 Jan 2031£407m
total awarded
- 4
Telent Technology Services Limited
3 contracts wonlatest 14 Nov 2025ends 15 Mar 2035£1bn
total awarded
- 5
RSS International ltd
3 contracts wonlatest 6 Oct 2025£69,000
total awarded
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National HighwaysKey Dates
Published
24 August 2026
Submission deadline
26 October 2026
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