Planned procurement · Notice 089054-2026
Streetlighting Services - Maintenance & Capital programme
- Value
- Value not stated
- Stage
- Early notice
- Where
- West Midlands
- Lots
- 1
- Suitable for SMEs
- Not stated
- Contract
- 19 May 2028 – 31 Aug 2032
In plain English
Staffordshire County Council and Stoke-on-Trent City Council are exploring the market for a single contractor to take over street lighting when their current PFI deals end in 2028. The work would cover routine and emergency maintenance, inspections and testing, fault repairs, design services and capital replacement programmes, with an initial four years and a possible four-year extension.
Good fit for: Large street lighting and highways electrical contractors able to run a county-wide service.
- A single contractor is wanted across two councils, so scale is essential
- Must take over from existing PFI contracts, including transfer of staff where applicable
- Needs in-house or commissioned professional street lighting design capability
- Open-book contract management and data systems that link to council systems
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What the buyer says
Future Street Lighting Service What Staffordshire County Council and Stoke-on-Trent City Council are seeking from the market Staffordshire County Council (SCC) and Stoke-on-Trent City Council (SoTCC) are working together to develop successor arrangements for their existing street lighting PFI contracts, which expire on 18 May 2028 and 31 August 2028 respectively. Our priority is to secure a safe, legal, reliable and value-for-money service, with effective mobilisation and uninterrupted service continuity from the relevant commencement date for each authority. Our anticipated requirement Subject to the outcome of the business case and formal approvals, the current direction is a jointly procured, single-contractor service, potentially comprising separate authority-specific arrangements under a common commercial and technical structure. The anticipated scope includes: • planned, preventative and reactive maintenance; • emergency attendance and response; • electrical and structural inspections, testing and compliance; • investigation and repair of faults referred by the authorities; • access to professional, technical and street lighting design services where required; • delivery of flexible capital investment and asset-replacement programmes; • maintenance of accurate, accessible and authority-owned asset information; • customer, stakeholder and third-party liaison; and • mobilisation, transition and service-continuity support. This integrated model is intended to provide clear end-to-end accountability while retaining flexibility for design services to be commissioned through the contractor where required, thereby managing operational interfaces and supporting effective delivery. The present planning assumption is an initial four-year contract with an option to extend fo…
Procedure: not stated. Published 21 Sep 2026.
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