Infrastructure giant lands £245m West Midlands roads maintenance deal

INFRASTRUCTURE group Balfour Beatty has been awarded a seven year, £245m contract to deliver highways maintenance for Coventry City Council, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council and Warwickshire County Council.

The group said the deal, which is a unique collaborative arrangement in the local authority highways market, had an option to extend the contract for a further three years.
 
Balfour Beatty Living Places will work in partnership with the three local authorities; an arrangement it said would benefit the councils because they were working with a single service provider across their combined areas. This would result in better value for money, improved service resilience and flexibility in services.  
 
Balfour Beatty has delivered Highways maintenance services across Warwickshire over the last five years. The group said the new award reflected the value it had already helped to derive in terms of service and IT provision.
 
The contract will be served by Balfour Beatty’s 120-strong directly employed workforce, which will include 30 local apprenticeships and 10 graduate placements. They will be responsible for delivering a variety of services to more than 3,100 miles of roads, winter maintenance across 1,240 miles of roads and maintenance of over 55,000 street lights.
 
Leo Quinn, Group Chief Executive, Balfour Beatty said: “We build long-term relationships with local authorities that add real value to communities.  With a clear focus on the outcomes that matter to communities, we are helping local authorities to deliver better value for money.  

“This contract award is a real endorsement of the excellent service we have provided across Warwickshire since 2011 and gives us the opportunity to build upon our successes.”