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Huddersfield’s FMG wins £34.5m Highways Agency contract

Huddersfield-based incident management specialist FMG has been reappointed to the National Vehicle Recovery Manager (NVRM) contract, with a value of £34.5m over seven years.

The contract encompasses 4,300 miles of motorways and significant A-roads, requiring FMG to deal with incidents on England’s Strategic Road Network, on behalf of the Highways Agency.

Following a competitive tender process, FMG has been awarded a three-year contract, which will run from Autumn 2013, with optional extensions for four further years.

FMG has managed the contract since the NVRM was inaugurated in 2008.

In the five years since FMG has worked on the contract, response times have improved to a 33-minute average, and the time to deal with incidents has improved.

FMG head of NVRM service, Philip Graham said: “By working with Highways Agency Traffic Officers, FMG co-ordinates a response and gets traffic moving as soon as is practicably safe.

“We’ve worked with a wide range of bodies, including the emergency services and our recovery network, to plan for every scenario, especially managing major incidents involving LGV’s and their loads.

“This helps ensure there is the efficiency and expertise to deal with any challenges.”

On average, FMG deals with around 40 incidents a day, and managed over 48,000 incidents over the life of the last contract.

These range from HGVs hitting bridges, to multiple vehicle pile-ups and breakdowns in dangerous locations.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Mark Lane .