This estimated contract start date is 7th December 2026 and will run until 6th September 2028. The Council is looking to award to a suitably qualified, competent and experienced Engineering Consultancy that can undertake regular planned inspections and prepare reports for Kirklees Council owned structures detailed within Appendix 5: Price Lists. Highway Structures include: bridges (including footbridges, cycle route bridges, bridleway bridges, accommodation bridges, occupation bridges, swing bridges, subways, underpasses, buried culverts); retaining walls; sign/signal gantries; cantilever road signs; tunnels and which satisfy the dimensional criteria defined in the Well-Managed Highway Infrastructure: Code of Practice - Part C and CG 300 Technical Approval of Highway Structures. The services that the Contractor will provide are technical, engineering, and supervisory services associated with the execution of inspection works and the preparation of inspection reports for each of the structures in Price Lists 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Options: On occasion there maybe additional structures that become necessary for an inspection. If the need arises, these will be raised as a compensation event via the NEC form of contract with contract being modified in line with Section 74 of PA23.

Procurement Act 2023

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