May Gurney wins £350m highways project

May Gurney has been appointed preferred bidder for Lincolnshire County Council's highways term maintenance contract valued at up to £350million over an estimated 10-year period.

The contract includes structural maintenance, gully-emptying services, winter maintenance, gritting and snow clearing services, street lighting and surface dressing plus road improvement schemes. It runs for an initial five years with up to five further years of extensions available.

Philip Fellowes-Prynne, chief executive of May Gurney, said: "We are delighted to have been selected as preferred bidder by Lincolnshire County Council for this significant long-term maintenance contract...This consolidates our position at the forefront of delivering essential services for the public and regulated sectors. May Gurney is now the market leader in local authority highways maintenance, maintaining more than 37,000kms of roads across the UK."