# 1-812 Innovation Strategy Development

> 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: £99,984
- Tender value: £99,983
- Award date: 10 April 2019
- Published: 10 April 2019
- Contract start: 10 April 2019
- Contract end: 31 March 2020
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: a4986996-384b-4434-af42-075c295400d3-282770
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-7ab4abe2-2adf-4e26-8540-66b64803608d

## Description

Highways England is looking to set up a contract for the provision of specialist technical advice and services as a follow up to ensure that we are well placed to fulfil our ever-increasing innovation agenda, this will address: - All the actions arising from our ongoing Office of Road and Rail \(ORR\) audit on Innovation and Standards Management\. - Further work aligning research and innovation to our imperatives and 2050 vision for the network, ensuring we have fully established and communicated company-wide priorities\. - Further development of our innovation maturity, and better embracement of the huge opportunities across highways and construction sectors offered by digital technology and intelligent infrastructure development\. - Improving the delivery of our innovation, both identifying, and overcoming any challenges, working collaboratively with industry to embrace innovation and deliver against our strategic objectives and imperatives\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a4986996-384b-4434-af42-075c295400d3-282770)