# Motorway Service Areas Feasibility Study

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [THE DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT](/buyers/department-for-transport/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [ARUP GROUP LIMITED](/contract-winners/arup-group/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £164,915
- Tender value: £164,915
- Award date: 23 July 2019
- Published: 31 July 2019
- Contract start: 24 July 2019
- Contract end: 29 February 2020
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 59b5aa4d-d703-4095-ba3b-015fb095a2d4-305060
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-b2447f53-b0b1-4588-a6a8-63a1059afe98

## Description

To undertake research and feasibility studies into the costs and challenges of increasing capacity at motorway service area \(MSA\) sites to meet future electric vehicle charging demand, the state of the market and the commercial business models that may be viable for private sector investment\. This will be used to inform the need for government intervention to develop a strategic charging network along motorways, and possibly wider interventions to include A roads/trunk roads and strategically located rapid charging hubs \(as part of a charging infrastructure strategy\)\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/59b5aa4d-d703-4095-ba3b-015fb095a2d4-305060)