# Valuing Journey Quality

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: Highways Agency
- Contract winner: [Ove Arup & Partners](/contract-winners/ove-arup-partners/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £140,995
- Tender value: £140,995
- Award date: 8 February 2017
- Published: 13 April 2017
- Contract start: 9 February 2017
- Contract end: 10 July 2017
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 82b8dd4c-1f88-4b4d-9033-935da284190c-141915
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-7c0e13f9-48b2-4458-9563-cb38854450a8

## Description

Highways England is looking to engage a technical supplier for the provision of research to be able to assess customers' Willingness to Pay for different qualities of road surface\. This will be estimated by commissioning a piece of contingent valuation research\. These values will then be used to help inform our investment decisions about when, and how to renew pavements on our network\. This research is the pilot for a wider scope of research to be carried out over the coming years\. As such, there is a requirement to design the research with a robust methodology that would allow it to be applied in other priority areas\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/82b8dd4c-1f88-4b4d-9033-935da284190c-141915)