23 May 2011
Capita Symonds has won a place on three of the four lots for the
Highways Agency’s new project support consultancy
framework.
The four year framework is designed to improve the HA's service
by splitting work into specialist areas rather than letting the
framework as one contract. The aim was to make it possible for
specialist consultancies to compete for work, identify the skills
the agency's teams require to manage project delivery more
effectively and avoid duplication.
The suppliers on the framework will provide support services
through task orders to enable project milestones to be achieved,
and a new performance regime has been developed.
The companies selected for the lots were:
- Integrated highway engineering and technology design
consultancy: Atkins, Halcrow/Hyder JV,
Jacobs Engineering, Mott MacDonald/Grontmij, Mouchel, URS (Scott
Wilson), WSP
- Traffic technology and network communications design:
Arup/Capita Symonds, Atkins, Halcrow/Hyder, Parsons Brinckerhoff/
Pell Frischmann, Serco, WSP
- Commercial support: Arup/Capita Symonds, Corderoy, Faithful
& Gould, Mott Macdonald/Grontmij, Parsons Brinckerhoff
- Project traffic modelling service: Arup/Capita Symonds, Atkins,
Halcrow/Hyder, Jacobs Engineering, Mouchel, URS (Scott
Wilson).