Costain, one of the UK's leading tier one engineering solutions providers, has, through its A-one+ joint venture with Halcrow and Colas, been awarded a two-year extension to its five-year Managing Agent Contractor (MAC) contract, by the Highways Agency (HA).

Under the contract, A-One+ will carry out a range of operational and routine maintenance services and deliver improvements on the motorways and trunk roads in the East Midlands (MAC Area 7). This covers the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland. The HA has already worked with A-one+ to deliver substantial savings as part of the retrofit of Asset Support Contract conditions to existing MAC contracts. The extension will enable the HA to develop and test new approaches to achieving even greater efficiencies.

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The contract extension is forecast to be worth circa £60m per annum and will extend the current contract to June 2016.

(CD/H)