# T0105 Highways England Drone Operating Standards & Requirements

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: Highways England
- Contract winner: [Arup](/contract-winners/arup/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £299,963
- Tender value: £299,963
- Award date: 8 June 2021
- Published: 16 June 2021
- Contract start: 8 June 2021
- Contract end: 31 March 2022
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: a7e05cc9-b30f-452b-b6db-748c87c9832a-444029
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-5454f85e-2636-4441-8493-693ba91fae93

## Description

As part of 'Connecting the Country - Planning for the Long Term" strategy, Highways England has stated it will explore a range of options to make construction work even safer and more efficient, including opportunities for using drones to help inspect and manage our assets and to support incident management\. Drones are starting to be used extensively across the network, so Highways England needs to have a joined-up approach to safely manage and operate all drone activities within the business\. We have published our first drone policy and established a cross directorate drone governance/working group to manage the growing drone usage\. Our drone policy is just the starting point; we now need to further develop our requirements to safely facilitate our use of drones to support design, construction, operation and maintenance \(asset management/ traffic management/incident management and media operations\) activities across our network\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a7e05cc9-b30f-452b-b6db-748c87c9832a-444029)