Countdown starts for £1bn Birmingham highways bid race

Birmingham City Council has kicked off early market engagement for a major new highways and infrastructure framework worth around £1bn over eight years.
The new framework for maintenance and upgrade work will be split across five lots covering a broad scope of works from minor road improvements to major capital civil engineering schemes across the West Midlands.
It will be open to other local public bodies and include delivery routes such as construct-only, design and build, and early cont