# Specialist Technical Support for Procurement of Energy Storage Systems \(ESS\) at Motorway Service Areas

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: Highways England
- Contract winner: [Costain Limited](/contract-winners/costain/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £85,690
- Tender value: £85,690
- Award date: 3 December 2021
- Published: 15 December 2021
- Contract start: 3 December 2021
- Contract end: 31 March 2022
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 30d2035d-b609-468e-a71a-47bf2e4d0db6-494156
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-7a6ef048-eaab-48f5-8a2a-e0fa2794740f

## Description

Highways England is looking to set up a contract to support activity to invest up to £11M of Air Quality Designated Funding in delivery of energy storage systems \(ESS\) at a number of motorway service areas \(MSAs\)\. The ESS project will contribute to the Government's commitment of providing a minimum of six high-powered electric vehicle charge points per MSA by 2023 by enabling the installation of ESS at locations where electricity grid capacity is insufficient to support delivering the commitment within the required timescales\. This is high priority activity for Government set out as an ambition in the project rapid policy paper and subsequently committed as a 'key stat' in the Department for Transport's Decarbonising Transport - A Better, Greener Britain \.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/30d2035d-b609-468e-a71a-47bf2e4d0db6-494156)