The agency plans to spend around £400m through the new arrangement over four years on support for the £11bn of capital investment in its Roads Improvement Strategy, announced in December 2014.
Firms selected will offer a mix of technical engineering advice, commercial services, dispute resolution advice, insurance advice, procurement advice and post-opening project evaluation.
SPaTS replaces previous routes available via T-TEAR, SPSF, PSF, and DRIP. This is an enabled framework and is available to the wider public sector.
SPaTS
Technical consultancy, engineering advice
Arup/Aecom
Atkins/C2HM
Pell Frischmann
TRL
WSP
Commercial services – performance and cost engineering
Arcadis (EC Harris)
Corderoy
Faithful & Gould
Mott MacDonald
Turner & Townsend
WSP
Commercial and dispute resolution
Arup
Insurance advice
Willis
Procurement advice
Arup
Mott MacDonald
Rowsell Wright
Turner & Townsend
Post implementation evaluation of projects and policies
Atkins
TRL
