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Highway Asset Management Solution

Manchester City Council · Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

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Opportunity overview

Manchester City Council is conducting a preliminary market testing for a Highway Asset Management solution. The engagement will provide insights into the functionality, benefits, and potential applications of the solution. The exercise will assist the Council gather insights in advance of a potential future procurement. Please note this is not a call for competition and Manchester City Council reserves the right not to proceed to procurement. Manchester's Highway Asset Management solution comprises of: o A fully integrated data capture system in respect for various types of highway safety inspections, defect recording and contract management of works to repairs defects. Solution to support the creation, editing and deletion of a highway safety inspection network based on a United Kingdom Pavement Management System road network. o Contract management for cyclic cleansing, ad-hoc inspections and repairs of drainage assets. o A Street works system to manage sample, routine inspections and highway licences e.g scaffolding, hoarding skips etc which will need to interface with the national street works register (Street Manager) o An Asset Management System able to utilise various data sets (eg. highway condition data, defect data, SCRIM survey data etc) to identify proposed carriageway and footway planned maintenance schemes. Solution to support the creation, editing and deletion of Manchester's road network which is based on a United Kingdom Pavement Management System road network.

Classification

  • CPV71311220 — Highways engineering services
  • CPV71356300 — Technical support services
  • CPV72314000 — Data collection and collation services
  • CPV72510000 — Computer-related management services

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
P-1018
Main Procurement Category
services
Above Threshold
Yes
Status
planning

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Has Renewal
Yes
Status
planning

Suitability

Sme
Yes

Contract period

Starts
1 Feb 2027, 00:00
Ends
30 Jan 2032, 23:59
Max Extent Date
29 Jan 2034, 23:59

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
CPV
Id
71311220
Description
Highways engineering services
Entry 2
Scheme
CPV
Id
71356300
Description
Technical support services
Entry 3
Scheme
CPV
Id
72314000
Description
Data collection and collation services
Entry 4
Scheme
CPV
Id
72510000
Description
Computer-related management services

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKD33
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Planning and budget

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
engagement
Type
engagement
Description
The Council is using the e-business portal known as the Chest. Participants will need to register their details at the following link www.the-chest.org.uk . Once registered, participants will be emailed a log-in and password which will allow them to gain access to the documentation relating to this market engagement exercise. Participants will need to electronically submit their completed Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire via the on-line portal by 11th May 2026 as referred to in the Preliminary Market Engagement documentation. We would like to invite you to attend a session where you can demonstrate your Asset management solution. Please let us know of your intention to be included in the demonstrations by completing and submitting the 'Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire - Highway Asset Management' doc via the E Procurement platform, CHEST. You will then contacted to discuss and agree dates for the demonstration sessions which we plan for sometime around end of May/June. https://procontract.due-north.com/Procurer/Advert/View?advertId=e3503841-573d-f111-813c-005056b64545&fromAdvertEvent=True
Due
11 May 2026, 23:59
Status
scheduled

Documents

Entry 1
Id
036268-2026
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Published
21 Apr 2026, 16:03
Format
text/html

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Name
Manchester City Council
Id
GB-PPON-PLNV-8798-LDMP

Identifier

Scheme
GB-PPON
Id
PLNV-8798-LDMP

Address

Street Address
Town Hall Extension
Locality
Manchester
Postal Code
M60 2LA
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKD33

Contact

Roles

buyer

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Id
publicAuthoritySubCentralGovernment
Description
Public authority - sub-central government

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Manchester · UKD33 · M60 2LA · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKD33 · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

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