The tender seeks to develop a decision support tool for incident management and operational planning of the strategic road network, in support of a Highways England’s DSRN vision. In particular, the scope of works will require the successful respondent to:

Develop an incident management tool, capable of supporting operations at the West Midlands Regional Control Centre. The decision support tool will encompass the entire “Birmingham Box”, a region bounded by the M5, M6 and M42.

Develop a tool that can identify spare capacity in the network (around the Birmingham Box). This could involve identifying when to change speed limits, deploy ramp metering, altering the traffic light sequence, etc.

Install the developed software at the West Midland Regional Control Centre and lead a user testing phase.

The procurement requirements and process are detailed in the tender documentation and supporting annexes.