The London Borough of Ealing has awarded Preston-based consultants XAIS-PTS a £33M contract for road condition monitoring services under Lot 2 of its Highways and Transport Services Framework.

The contract was signed on 1 April and runs until 31 March 2030. It has a value of £33M excluding VAT (£39.6M including VAT).

The framework is available to the London Borough of Ealing and, through access agreements, all London local authorities and the City of London Corporation. It includes a key performance indicator measuring borough satisfaction with the framework’s overall performance, with reporting every six months.

Under Lot 2 – Road Condition Monitoring, XAIS-PTS will carry out annual inspections of the client’s footways and carriageways and provide condition ratings using 2024 data as a baseline. All surveys will follow relevant industry and professional standards.

The firm will use the survey results to inform annual and four-year programmes for structural maintenance. It will also develop a highways infrastructure asset management strategy under the lot to help the client plan and prioritise future works.

Services under the lot will be delivered through a call-off arrangement, allowing work to be commissioned on a flexible basis as and when required.

The framework permits contracts to be awarded either with or without competition.

Consultants appointed to the framework are required to provide a volume discount, or rebate, of 2% of total fees generated across participating authorities within each financial year. The rebate applies separately to each framework lot and is payable only to the London Borough of Ealing.

The West London borough is home to the Old Oak Common station site, which has been developed for HS2. While construction continues, there have been recent challenges regarding land access at Horn Lane, where Network Rail sought permanent rights to support maintenance of the Great Western Main Line.

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