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Interim Highways and Infrastructure Support

Awarded United Kingdom Architecture & engineering services

Buyer Cheshire West and Chester Council

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Awarded to

Essency Consulting

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Summary

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Cheshire West and Chester Council has awarded a contract for interim highways and infrastructure support. The consultant will provide continuity of leadership within a critical statutory service pending recruitment of a permanent postholder. The role covers oversight of highways operations, capital investment programmes, major contractual arrangements, network management duties, flood risk responsibilities, emergency response arrangements and the Council's wider highways and infrastructure portfolio. The contract was awarded to Essency Consulting.

Timing

  1. Published
  2. Awarded pending

Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) does not publish the date of this award. See the official notice

Description

The consultant will provide essential continuity of leadership within a critical statutory service, ensuring effective oversight of highways operations, capital investment programmes, major contractual arrangements, network management duties, flood risk responsibilities, emergency response arrangements and the Council's wider highways and infrastructure portfolio pending recruitment of a permanent postholder

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A debrief request in the buyer's language (English). Fill in the parts in square brackets and send it to the contact named in your award letter.

To: Cheshire West and Chester Council

Subject: Request for the reasons for the award decision. Interim Highways and Infrastructure Support ([Reference number])

Dear Sir or Madam,

We submitted a tender in the procedure named above and have been informed that the contract was awarded to another tenderer.

So that we can understand the decision, we kindly ask you to send us:

1. the reasons why our tender was not selected;
2. the name of the successful tenderer, and the characteristics and relative advantages of its tender;
3. the scores that our tender and the successful tender received on each award criterion, with the reasons for each score;
4. the date on which the standstill period ends, if one applies.

Please confirm that you have received this request.

Yours faithfully,

[Name and position]
[Company]
[Address]
[Email and telephone]
[Place and date]

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Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

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Last verified against Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) 3 days ago

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Market

Architecture & engineering services in United Kingdom

median award in this market
€118,652
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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 1,014 awards for Architecture & engineering services in United Kingdom.

Median award
€118,652
Middle half of past awards
€58,454 to €292,132

Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) publishes no value for this notice, so it has no mark on the scale. The official documents may state one.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

Market context

open now in Architecture & engineering services
6,879
median open notice
€260,000

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Architecture & engineering services

different companies won awards here
663
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
8%
buyers awarded contracts here
420

Based on 1,248 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

The buyer in figures

Cheshire West and Chester Council

notices in the register
67
awards
51
awarded in total
€881,150

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
43
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
16%
of its calls state an estimated value
55%

Based on 49 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

Cheshire West and Chester Council

United Kingdom

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