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Contract award: Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council - Highways Term Maintenance - HM1 - Carriageway Resurfacing (GBP 80,000,000)

UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API Authoritative source Published 12th October 2026 United Kingdom

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What the source reported

Source-reported

Contract award notice published on UK Find a Tender by Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council. Procurement: Highways Term Maintenance - HM1 - Carriageway Resurfacing. Description: The Council has not undertaken preliminary market engagement in accordance with Sections 16 and 17 of the Procurement Act 2023, having assessed that it was not required for the nature and scope of this procurement. The Contract will be tendered using the open procedure under the Procurement Act 2023. It is proposed to procure an 8-year contract, consisting of an initial 5-year period followed by a Category: works. Value: GBP 80,000,000 (stated award/contract value). Supplier(s): DOWHIGH LIMITED.

Publication
UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API · Government/Regulator
Published
12th October 2026
Original report
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What ProcIntel recorded

ProcIntel-derived
Category
Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography
United Kingdom
Organisations
None identified
Collected
12th October 2026 · 13:43

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Significance 1 · Low
Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (15.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Impact-Scale Specificity
Possibly the same underlying story as Contract award: NHS England - NHS Online (GBP 9,900,000) — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.