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Construction Contract Leads

Scope

Description

The National Gallery is seeking to appoint a Highways & Transport Consultant with the capability, capacity and relevant experience to support the delivery of a new development at the Gallery, located on Trafalgar Square in central London.

The Project will involve the development of a new building integrated with the existing National Gallery estate, together with proposals affecting the public highway, movement, servicing, access, public realm and statutory highway processes within a highly constrained and sensitive urban, cultural and heritage context.

The Project is expected to require coordinated highways engineering and transport planning input in relation to matters including, without limitation, highway status and boundary interfaces, servicing and operational access, parking and cycle provision, pedestrianisation or access restriction, Section 278 works, Traffic Management Orders, stopping-up processes, oversailing and undersailing licences, highway-related Section 106 obligations, and coordination with public realm and design proposals.

The successful Highways & Transport Consultant will be appointed to undertake professional services across RIBA Stages 0-7, as set out in the Scope of Services included within the Form of Appointment.

Candidates will be required to demonstrate experience in delivering highways engineering and transport planning services of comparable scale, complexity and sensitivity within the United Kingdom, and in particular within central London and the City of Westminster, including work in constrained urban sites, operational environments and projects involving statutory highway approvals and legal processes.

The role of the Highways & Transport Consultant will include, as a minimum:

• acting as Lead Highways & Transport Consultant in respect of all matters affecting land within, above, below, or operationally connected to the public highway, whether adopted or unadopted;

• providing integrated highways engineering and transport planning services, ensuring alignment between operational and servicing requirements, transport and planning policy compliance, physical highways and access design, and statutory approvals and legal processes;

• liaising with Westminster City Council, Transport for London and other relevant highway or transport authorities;

• coordinating highways and transport inputs with the Architect, Landscape Architect, Civil and Structural Engineer, Planning Consultant, Access Consultant, Cost Consultant, MEP Engineer and the Client's legal advisers;

• identifying, managing and supporting the approvals route for Section 278 works, Traffic Management Orders, stopping-up, oversailing and undersailing licences, and other relevant statutory processes;

• developing, coordinating and supporting the delivery of highways and transport strategies relating to pedestrianisation, access restriction, servicing, parking, cycle provision, bay relocation, public realm interfaces and development on former highway land;

• supporting the Project through planning, technical design, implementation and close-out, including ongoing technical support in relation to statutory approvals and highway delivery.

It is recognised that Candidates may propose multi-disciplinary teams or collaborative arrangements.

Where this is the case, the contractual relationship between organisations and the allocation of roles and responsibilities must be clearly described in the submission. The organisation with which the National Gallery will contract must be clearly identified as the Lead Supplier.

Total value (estimated)

• £150,000 excluding VAT
• £180,000 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Contract dates (estimated)

• 1 July 2026 to 30 April 2032
• 5 years, 10 months

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

• 71311210 - Highways consultancy services

Contract locations

• UKI32 - Westminster

Participation

Legal and financial capacity conditions of participation

as set out in the tender documents

Technical ability conditions of participation

as set out in the tender documents

Submission

Submission type

Tenders

Tender submission deadline

26 May 2026, 9:30am

Submission address and any special instructions

Tenders may be submitted electronically

Yes

Languages that may be used for submission

English

Award decision date (estimated)

19 June 2026

Award criteria

Other information

Description of risks to contract performance

Planning process causes delays

Conflicts assessment prepared/revised

Yes

Procedure

Procedure type

Competitive flexible procedure

Competitive flexible procedure description

The process comprises two linked elements within a single submission:

• Appendix A - Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ): a series of Pass/Fail Conditions of Participation that Candidates must satisfy in order to be considered for this commission; and

• Invitation to Tender (ITT): a scored technical and commercial tender submission for Candidates that meet the Pass/Fail requirements.

The Pass/Fail section is intended to confirm that each Candidate meets the minimum requirements for participation in relation to legal standing, financial capacity, insurance and project-specific technical capability. The ITT is intended to test the quality of the proposed team, the Candidate's understanding of the Project and its highways / transport context, the proposed approach to delivery of the services, and the commercial proposal.

Clarification interviews may be held with the top scoring applicants

Contracting authority

National Gallery

• Public Procurement Organisation Number: PGYR-7259-GLQG

Trafalgar Square

London

WC2N 5DN

United Kingdom

Email: contracting [at] nationalgallery.org.uk

Region: UKI32 - Westminster

Organisation type: Public authority - central government