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EnterpriseMouchel extend £140m contract with Highways Agency

Highways maintenance business EnterpriseMouchel (EM) has extended a “prestigious” deal with The Highways Agency to operate, maintain and improve roads in central southern England.

The Manchester-based firm already provides for the roads in Area 3, which the Asset Support Contract (ASC) covers, and renewed the £140m-a-year deal which will start again in November this year.

It will run until 2018 with the possibility of a further extension with The Highways Agency until 2021.

Area 3 consists of around 1,242 km of motorways and trunk roads in Surrey, Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.

The network provides links to Heathrow and Southampton airports, as well as the docks of Southampton and Portsmouth, and south coast destinations like Bournemouth and Poole.

EM indicated this contract will allow the business, the Highways Agency and its Supply Chain Community to deliver the best value to the communities they serve.

Dave Wright, EM’s managing director, commented: “I am delighted that EM has been awarded the Area 3 Asset Support Contract.

“Having successfully delivered our current portfolio of MAC contracts to a high standard, consistently featuring in the upper quartile of the Highways Agency’s performance metrics, I am confident we can make this latest ASC contract an exemplar.

“We are committed to delivering to the Highways Agency’s vision of Safe Roads, Reliable Journeys and Informed Travellers through EM’s strong core focus on the safety, asset management and delivering better value year on year.”

Grant Rumbles, chief executive of Mouchel, said: “We are absolutely delighted the Highways Agency has awarded the Area 3 ASC contract to EM.

“Following closely on the heels of the London Highways Alliance Contract Award in November 2012 this reaffirms EM’s position as the Highway Service provider of choice.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Miranda Dobson .