Official UK procurement notice
LTC Co Regulatory & Economic Advice / Transition Support
Authority: National Highways Limited (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTo provide specialist advice and support to the Programme Director in the planning and delivery of transition arrangements around risk management / regulation to enable successful delivery of the private sector transfer of Lower Thames Crossing .
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 30 Sept 2026, 10:31 BST
- Last source update
- 9 Oct 2026, 08:56 BST
- Authority reference
pro_24549- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-095460- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077d35Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Additional Repeat Extension Partial Replacement
- Published justification
Retaining the existing regulatory advisors, on the project provides clear commercial, programme, and risk management benefits:
The current advisors have developed a detailed understanding of the project’s regulatory framework, key risks, and stakeholder expectations. Replacing them would result in a loss of knowledge, requiring significant time and cost to onboard new advisors.
Introducing new advisors at this stage would create avoidable delays while they familiarise themselves with the project, potentially impacting critical milestones. Maintaining the existing team supports continuity and protects the programme timeline.
Transitioning to new advisors would incur duplication of work, additional onboarding costs, and inefficiencies during the handover period. Retention avoids these unnecessary expenditures.
Changing advisors risks inconsistency in outputs and could undermine prior work or require revalidation.
Notice history
4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 30 Sept 2026- Transparency notice published30 Sept 2026, 10:31 BSTUK5
- Contract award notice published30 Sept 2026, 10:34 BSTUK6
- Contract details notice published9 Oct 2026, 08:56 BSTUK7
- Contract signature expected9 Oct 2026, 23:59 BSTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indepen LimitedSME12 Oct 2026 – 31 Jul 2028 | £310,000 | 16 Sept 2026 | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 1 · Indepen LimitedSME
- Signed
- 9 Oct 2026
- Value
- £310,000
- Period
- 12 Oct 2026 – 31 Jul 2028
- Status
- active
1 agreed KPI: Time cost and quality
- Time cost and quality, Scope contains a number of timed deliverables
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Indepen LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender