Better information for your journey
The National Traffic Control Centre collects real-time information on road conditions.
The Project Control Framework
On 1st April 2008 we launched the Project Control Framework. The Framework sets out how we, together with the Department for Transport, manage and deliver major improvement projects.
Free Traffic Information Seminars
Helping your business get its customers, drivers and goods where they should be, on time and stress-free.
Capability Assessment Toolkit 3
Introducing new and challenging indicators in the area of corporate social responsibility.
Efficiency Gains from Collaborative Roads Procurement
Delivering efficiency and best value is central
Procurement and the Highways Agency
The Highways Agency is responsible for the management and development of England's motorway and trunk road network.
The Government's Transport 2010: the 10 Year Plan, published in 2000, made clear that the maintenance and further development of that asset was a vital component of the country's economy and social fabric.
£21 billion is being invested in the network over the next 10 years - each year alone the Agency spends some £¾ billion in maintaining the strategic road network; substantial investment is being and will continue to be made both in developing the capacity of the network and in schemes to improve the safety, reliability and environmental impact of the network.
The Agency delivers the overwhelming majority of its services through third parties - in particular through contractors, maintaining agents and consultants. Procurement, therefore, is at the heart of the Agency's business - good procurement practice and good relationships with our supply chains are essential to the effective delivery of high quality services to road users.
We have set roles and responsibilities for procurement, which form a framework within which we operate. We are also subject to UK and European regulations that regulate how we purchase works, goods and services.
Our procurement strategy covers the full range of the Agency's activities, including how we invest in information systems, research and development, and training and development. Inevitably, though, there is a predominant focus on our central role of delivering services to road users as the network operator.
