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Highways Structures Principal Inspections

Details

Value
£170,000
Topic
Structural engineering consultancy services
Published
8 October 2026
Submission
9 November 2026in 1 month

Tender description

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.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published8 October 2026
    Current notice
  2. Next: Submission date9 November 2026in 1 month

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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