Pre-tender

Highways Structures Principal Inspections

Details

Topic
Structural engineering consultancy services
Published
24 September 2026

Tender description

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. 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 structure.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published24 September 2026
    Current notice

About the buyer

Kirklees Council is a West Yorkshire local authority with a corporate procurement team led by a Head of Procurement and Commissioning. Every tender is advertised on YORtender, the e-procurement portal used to run e-tenders and manage suppliers and contracts. Larger contracts also appear on Find a Tender through the Central Digital Platform. Service Directors hold the authority to commence and award procurements in their own directorates. Approved frameworks, dynamic purchasing systems and dynamic markets are permitted routes to market. The Head of Procurement keeps a list of approved central purchasing organisations, including YPO and the Crown Commercial Service.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Kirklees Council's contract awards have been in construction work, construction materials and health and social work.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 71312000 · Structural engineering consultancy services

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