Road and Highway Tender and Bid Writing Experts
Our construction and infrastructure team has specialist experience and expertise writing highways and roads construction and maintenance bids. Our team of bid writers has been helping organisations across the UK write highways bids and tenders for over seven years – for projects across the UK and also internationally.
We assist clients with all roads and highway bids including:
- Highway Construction and Maintenance: These bids and tenders are generally released by Highways England. This is a government-owned construction company which releases a broad range of tenders across all aspects of highway construction and maintenance. Examples of tenders and bids we have been involved in and can assist with include maintenance of motorways, major roads, road widening projects, bridge repairs and smart motorway upgrades.
- Local Road Schemes: Our team has experience writing bids and tenders to local Councils, shires and authorities across the UK. These are mostly local projects for road improvements and other street works such as the improvement of residential streets, cycle paths and pedestrian crossings.
Tendering to Government / Public Sector for Highways and Roads Bids
Our experience writing highway and road sector bids and tenders across the UK has seen us working on bids to all major Government departments including:
- Department of Transport (DfT): they responsible for transportation policy across the UK and oversee many of the agencies that release highway and roads bids and tenders.
- Highways England: Responsible for highways across the UK.
- Local Councils and Authorities (LGA): Local councils often release bids and tenders for road sector works. Examples of some of the local Councils our team members have helped clients win contracts with include London Borough of Camden, Birmingham City Council and Manchester City Council. The LGA represents local authorities in England and Wales and can develop frameworks for goods and services that are relevant to local transportation projects.
Highway Bids – Contracts and Services our write help clients win and provide
Highway and roads bids are critical areas of infrastructure development and are inherently complex. The services and works our team has been involved in bidding for a broad and not only restricted to the construction side of the highway and roads bids. Our bid writers help clients looking to win contracts to provide:
Construction and Rehabilitation / Miantenance:
- New Road and Highway Construction bids: We have worked on bids for PPP projects as well as private companies for the construction of new highways and roads. This includes construction of highways, bridges, associated works such as excavation, grading, paving and drainage systems. Our writers are skilled in working with engineers to write detailed and compelling methodologies that sell your solution and highlight time and quality benefits. This includes for large national projects such as major highway upgrades and developments.
- Bridge Rehabilitation: Bridges and tunnels are a highly specialised area and are often integrated into major highway projects. We have helped clients write bids and tenders for contracts associated with improving bridge maintenance works including design and construction of underpasses and overpasses, resurfacing, patching welding and structural repairs and general bridge maintenance.
- Tunnel construction and maintenance: We have written methodologies and bids for tunnel projects including for the design and excavation of tunnels for roads and highways.
Design and Engineering Services for Roads and Highways – Winning Bids
- Highway Design: We work with engineering and design consultancies who are bidding for contracts for highways design. This generally involves working with specialist consultancies to help them write bids for the design of large highways projects across the UK and extension and improvement of existing highways. It includes taking into account traffic flow, safety, environmental impact and construction feasibility.
- Structural Engineering: We work closely with structural engineers who are bidding for contracts to analyse tunnel structures such as tunnels, bridges, highways and other plans for safety and durability. We have helped small, medium and national engineering practices bid and tender for work across the UK including for small and medium projects where we have helped small structural engineering consultants win contracts.
- Geotechnical Engineering: Geotechnical services are typically required for new projects to assess soil and rock conditions and ensure the appropriate foundations are developed. We help geotechnical engineers write winning bids and tenders for Highway and Road contracts and understand the importance of focusing on expertise and experience and tailoring a compelling response.
- Writing and undertaking environmental impact assessments: These are generally required for most highway projects.
Materials Testing and Quality Control
- Materials Testing: The provision of material testing is a highly specialised service carried out by specialist consultants. These consultancy often have to write private sector bids (as well as public sector) to be the preferred provider on major highway and roads projects. They provide an important quality control service for highway and roads bids. We have helped inspection and material testing providers to win contract for testing materials such as asphalt, concrete and soil and carrying out inspections to ensure quality and compliance.
Traffic Management and Safety
- Traffic Engineering and Traffic Studies: A critical and major piece of any highway or roads bid – traffic management is ever-present in roads and highway bids with signage, signals, markings and analysis all forming part of it. Our team of writing consultants have helped traffic management companies bid for roads and highways tenders to provide services. We have also helped specialist traffic analysis consultancies bid to conduct feasibility studies for major projects. Our writers have a comprehensive understanding of traffic engineering terminology and have also helped traffic management companies write and win bids to Local Councils and the private sector.
Maintenance and Repair Services Bid Writing for Highways and Roads
- Routine Maintenance: We have helped maintenance companies write bids for roads maintenance services – particularly grounds and asset maintenance companies and pothole repair service providers. We have written bids for companies to secure contracts for grass
- Emergency Repairs: For these bids and tenders response times are critical. You need to put forward a methodology, plan and team with the right depth of resources to respond quickly to urgent issues such as road collapses or landslides. We have helped write tenders and bids for companies to undertake emergency repairs and quickly restore road functionality for roads across the UK.
- Winter Maintenance: A highly specialised area ensuring safe driving conditions for motorists across the UK – Winter maintenance is critical. Our bid writers know and understand the terminology involved in snow removal, de-icing and other winter maintenance works.
Environmental Remediation and Restoration
- Site Remediation: We have helped expert remediation companies and excavation companies to conduct cleanup and restoration of contaminated sites. This is usually associated with construction and maintenance activities on highways and roads. We have also helped providers of habitat restoration services write bids and tenders particularly for new highway and road projects.
- Environmental Monitoring: An important part of any roads or highways project. Our team has helped environmental consultancies tender to provide monitoring services for air quality, water quality and noise levels as part of the environmental impact of road projects.
Technology and Innovation Bids for Highway and Road Projects.
- Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS): We combine This includes the implementation of technologies like traffic sensors, variable message signs, and automated toll collection systems to improve traffic management and efficiency.
- Construction Technology: This is a highly innovative area that often involves our IT bid writers assisting with the bid. We have worked with a number of service providers bidding to provide innovative technologies for highway and road projects. These include drone inspections, 3D printing and Building Information Modeling (BIM).
Pavement Management Systems (PMS) bids and tenders
- Our team has worked on bids to implement pavement management systems in order to track road pavements, prioritise maintenance and also conduct PMS data collection. We help specialised companies write highway and road bids – particularly for maintenance services. Our bid writers understand the cost of whole of life cost maintenance and are able to work on bids that with your joint venture partners if required.
Lighting and Electrical Systems and Noise Control
- Road Lighting Design: A critical component of many bids, we have mostly assisted design consultancies to write bids to Top-Tier contractors and PPP joint ventures.
- Electrical Systems Maintenance: We have assisted asset maintenance and management companies to bid for contract suppling road infrastructure, such as traffic signals, streetlights, and tunnel ventilation.
- Noise Barriers: A critical part of many highway projects, we have helped noise maintenance barrier businesses bid for highway and road works.
Types of tenders and bids our writers have helped our clients win
We have helped our clients win all types of road, highway and infrastructure bids including:
- Design-Build Contracts: Similar to rail projects – across the UK. A common contract type for roads and maintenance.
- Asset Management Contracts: We are highly experience in writing bids for these types of long term contracts where a quality methodology and long term plan is critical to success. These contracts usually involve the long-term management of road assets, including maintenance, repair, and renewal.
- Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs): For many of our large infrastructure clients bidding on highway bids, they enter into PPP agreements. Our team know the complexities of putting these high value bids together.
Recent cast studies of highway bids
- Smart Motorways: Highways England has been investing in smart motorways, which use technology to improve traffic flow and reduce congestion. We have worked on bids and tenders as part of the Smart Motorways project helping clients secure work in road upgrades and technology installation.
- Major Road Upgrades: Our bid writing consultants have been involved in bids to Highways England for the M25 Motorway widening and M1 Junction improvement works just to name a few.
What goes into writing a winning Highway or Roads Bid?
Along with the normal case studies, tailored responses, detailed building methodology and safety proposals and plans, some of the strategies our team at Tsaks Consulting adopts to help clients win highway, motorway and roads bids include:
- Understanding Local Requirements: Be aware of the specific requirements and regulations that apply to road projects in the relevant area. You bid needs to be highly tailored and address any local needs. Take the time to research local issues and challenges and ensure your proposal provides a solution to address these. It may be for example an apprenticeship or employment strategy for locals in a highway construction project in a remote area.
- Demonstrating Local Experience: Highlight your company’s experience in delivering road projects in the UK. The key here is to not just list major projects or similar project, but to explain why they are similar to the proposed project and what lessons learned from previous projects will apply.
- Sustainability and Environmental Impact: Address the environmental impact of your proposed project and demonstrate your commitment to sustainable practices. This is now critical and needs to be a core component of your bid. You need to ensure it is integrated throughout your bid – not just in response to an environmental question.
- Traffic Management: Develop a comprehensive traffic management plan to minimize disruption during construction. Your traffic management plan needs to be well thought out and demonstrate an understanding of the challenges that are typically faced.
- Community Engagement: Engage with local communities to address their concerns and gain their support. They key here is to put in the hard work prior to submitting the bid – don’t just simply talk about what you will do. This demonstrates that you have worked hard and you can provide documentary evidence about what you have discussed, initiatives put in place, and who you have worked with.
The UK has a vast network of roads, highways, and motorways that form the backbone of its transportation infrastructure. To ensure these assets remain in optimal condition, the government and local authorities often engage in tenders for roads maintenance and highway projects. These tenders provide opportunities for construction companies, civil engineering firms, and other relevant businesses to bid for contracts and contribute to the upkeep of the nation’s road infrastructure.
Types of Roads Maintenance Tenders
- Regular Maintenance: These tenders typically involve routine tasks such as pothole repairs, grass cutting, winter gritting, and general maintenance of existing road surfaces.
- Resurfacing: This type of tender focuses on renewing the top layer of a road surface, often to improve its condition, safety, or appearance.
- Structural Repairs: These tenders address more significant issues, including road subsidence, pavement failure, and bridge repairs.
- Smart Road Technology: As technology advances, tenders for the installation and maintenance of smart road infrastructure, such as intelligent traffic systems or electric vehicle charging points, are becoming increasingly common.
How we can help you win Highway Bids and Road Tenders and Contracts
Tsaks Consulting has helped many regional SMEs and large Tier-1 contractors to secure lucrative highway contracts. We’ve helped with all the different types of contracts including early contractor, design and build, managing agent contracts and frameworks.
Our team will help you:
- Identify highway and road contract opportunities. We help you undertake bid / no bid decisions to ensure you bid for contracts you can actually win!
- Bid launch / workshop – We work with you to strategise the tender or bid and come up with a winning strategy with relevant and compelling win themes.
- Our expert bid writers will help you write your bid and will provide support through the bid preparation and writing process.
- Create compelling graphics and submit your bid.
- Create a Bid Library so you can use AI to streamline your bids.
There are many contract opportunities coming in 2025 as the government has pledged significant funds (over 27 billion) to support highway operations, builds and renewals. Our team understanding the technical terminology around highway and road works such as road planning, resurfacing, hardscaping, drainage, traffic management, high friction surfacing and road cleaning.
We assist clients bidding for highway and roads bids across the UK including for projects and road / highway works in London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, Bristol, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Edinburgh, Leicester, Coventry, Bradford, Cardiff, Belfast, Nottingham, Null and Southampton.
We also assist SMES an other businesses located in regional UK for highway and road works in both regional UK and metropolitan UK. Areas where we have helped businesses or been involved in highway and roads bids include the North West, North East, Yorkshire and the Humber, Midlands, South West, South East, North Scotland, South West and South East Scotland, Fife, Tayside, North Wales, South Wales and Northern Ireland. Speak with our bid writers today to talk about how we can assist with your next highway or roads bid.