RBKC Highways Contracts 2025 (CF)

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) (the Council) has a statutory obligation, as a Highway Authority, to maintain the public highway within its boundary and in doing so we require specialist contractors to support us in carrying out these works. We are responsible for over 188km of carriageways, 380km of footways, five bridges including the two Thames crossings and over 12,000 streetlights.

To streamline our current service provision, we are looking for contractors to deliver our requirements under 3 contract Lots:

Lot 1 - Highways drainage work - repairs and replacement of highway drainage connections from gullies to the Thames Water connection, installation of new highways drainage systems and deep connections and headings, maintenance and installations of Sustainable Drainage systems (SuDs) and design work.

Lot 2 - Highways Structures - maintenance and repairs to the highways structures which includes two Thames crossings, one road bridge over a canal and one over a railway line, along with a footbridge and length of Thames Embankment wall. This will also include technical inspections, Approval In Principle (AIP) technical applications from developers and design work.

Lot 3 - Highway Maintenance and Projects - footway and carriageway and street furniture repairs and planned maintenance works included all carriageway road markings, streetlighting repairs and planned maintenance, lit and non- illuminated highways signs, carrying out structural and electrical tests on the street lighting columns and electrical connections, installing new apparatus and working with the network distributor UKPN for electrical connections, helping to service new electric vehicle charge points and small cell installations, install new street scene improvements, implement projects to aid road safety and sustainable transport and implement projects on the public highway through developer / planning requirements and design work.

These contracts are expected to commence on the 1st April 2025 for initial period of 5 years, with the option to extend for a further 3 years, in 3 x 12-months increments.

Bidders can bid for one or more contacts/Lots.