Birmingham fires starting gun on £1bn highways deal

Birmingham City Council has opened the bid race for multiple places on a framework deal to deliver new highways and infrastructure work worth around £1bn over eight years.
The Highways and Infrastructure Works Framework will be used to deliver road, public realm and utilities upgrades across the city and wider Midlands.The new P1228 framework is split into five lots ranging from sub-£200k jobs up to schemes topping £10m, with a separate utilities lot running without an upper va