Overview
Expression of Interest for Area 14 Maintenance & Response (M&R) contract – Durham
Job Description
You are invited to register your interest in getting involved in the Area 14 Maintenance & Response (M&R) contract.
Costain and Jacobs joint venture known as CHC have the Area 14 M&R contract until July 2028 with National Highways.
CHC provide the provision of maintenance and response services in relation to the Strategic Road Network in Area 14 which includes the motorways and trunk roads in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, County Durham, and North Yorkshire.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
The area is set to expand with the addition of new road sections: the A69 trunk road in 2026, followed by the A19 along with other associated trunk roads in 2027.
CHC are responsible for:
- Maintenance: Performs routine and reactive maintenance, including cyclical and defect rectification.
- Response: Provides severe weather and incident response.
- Technology: Maintains roadside technology.
- Traffic Management: Provides traffic management for its own activities and for others working on the network.
- Lighting
- Vehicle Restraint Systems
- Soft estate
- Sweeping & cleaning
- Drainage
- Traffic signs
- Scheme works
The maintenance works consists of:
- Lighting
- Vehicle Restraint Systems
- Soft estate
- Sweeping & cleaning
- Drainage
- Traffic signs
- Scheme works
About Us
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
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