Win more highways work.
CrowMark helps UK highways and infrastructure firms find road and maintenance tenders and win NEC contracts, from social value to KPI evidence. Every figure and delivery claim in your bid traces back to your own data and the rules that apply.
Long contracts, collaborative forms, hard evidence.
Highways and infrastructure work is procured by a mix of buyers. National Highways runs the strategic road network for the Department for Transport, while local authorities and combined authorities let term maintenance, surfacing, drainage, lighting and improvement schemes across the local network. Much of this flows through regional frameworks and alliances that pool demand across councils, and almost all of it is advertised on Contracts Finder and Find a Tender and run through e-sourcing portals.
Highways tenders are demanding for three reasons. First, the contract forms. Many schemes are let under NEC forms, such as NEC4, which are collaborative and put a premium on programme, early warning, risk and performance management, so buyers expect a delivery-led bid rather than a price sheet. Second, the evidence bar. Term contracts run for years on published KPIs, and under the Procurement Act 2023, live from 24 February 2025, those KPIs and the promises behind them follow you into delivery. Third, social value. In-scope central government highways contracts carry a minimum 10% social value weighting under PPN 002, mandatory from 1 October 2025, with buyers asking for local employment, apprenticeships and carbon reduction on scheme.
For a bid team that is also mobilising live works, keeping all of that accurate and consistent across multiple schemes is the real workload.
From scheme notice to evidenced delivery.
Find the right schemes, daily. CrowMark tracks Contracts Finder and Find a Tender and refreshes at 06:00 each day. Filter by CPV code, region and value so only the highways and infrastructure schemes you can deliver reach your list.
Build a delivery-led bid. CrowMark drafts answers grounded in bids your firm has already submitted, so your approach to programme, risk and performance reads consistently across NEC schemes. A person reviews and approves every draft.
Score social value in code. CrowMark computes social value on the PPN 002 model at the 10% minimum weighting, over a curated catalogue of TOMs-aligned measures. Every pound and percentage has to exist in your own data before the draft is released, so figures on scheme are defensible.
Disclose AI and evidence KPIs. Every AI-assisted draft carries a PPN 017 transparency disclosure. After award, CrowMark checks the Procurement Act 2023 KPI duties, section 52 and section 71, as an advisory step and gives you a place to evidence performance over the life of a term contract. These checks are advisory and are not legal advice.
Cyber Essentials evidence for buyer assurance sits with CrowCyber, and overdue payment across the supply chain sits with CrowCash, so qualify, win and get paid is covered by one platform.
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