Marlborough Highways awarded a position on ESPO framework 256_24: Highway Electrical Connections provided by Independent Connection Providers

ESPO
February 1, 2025

Marlborough Highways awarded a position on ESPO framework 256_24: Highway Electrical Connections provided by Independent Connection Providers

  • By Marlborough Highways

Marlborough Highways is proud to announce it has been awarded a position on the Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation (ESPO) framework for Highway Electrical Connections provided by Independent Connection Providers (256_24), marking an important milestone in the company’s growth and diversification strategy. As a NERS accredited supplier of Independent Connection Provider (ICP) services, this achievement enables Marlborough to deliver a holistic approach to street lighting operations, providing comprehensive solutions to local authority clients across London.

This attainment builds on Marlborough’s recent accreditation under the National Electricity Registration Scheme (NERS), which certified the company’s ability to deliver safe, compliant, and efficient electrical connections for infrastructure projects like street lighting, CCTV installation, and EV charging stations. Now with the awarding of a position on the ESPO Highway Electrical Connections Framework, it ensures that borough councils can benefit from a single, trusted provider, capable of managing a variety of electrical infrastructure needs.

The ESPO framework offers public sector organisations direct access to pre-vetted suppliers, ensuring value, quality, and compliance in delivering essential services. By successfully securing a place on this framework, Marlborough strengthens its ability to provide London boroughs with high-quality, reliable and efficient ICP services. With a focus on transparency, flexibility, and social value, the framework offers a dependable route for procuring works through direct awards or competitive bids.

Following a comprehensive tender process, in which Marlborough was the joint top scorer for quality, the company was awarded positions on two key lots covering London:

  • Lot 1:Focused on Highway Electrical Connections on Distribution Network Operator (DNO) or Independent DNO (IDNO) networks. This includes essential public electrical works such as connecting, transferring, and disconnecting unmetered supplies, and carrying out civil engineering tasks like trench excavation and reinstatement.
  • Lot 2: Expands on Lot 1 to include Highway Electrical Connections on privately owned networks. This allows Marlborough to connect private cables to public networks and undertake additional tasks such as installation works, jointing, termination, and fault finding

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The Highway Electrical Connections Framework, which commenced on 17th December 2024, runs for an initial two-year term with the option for a two-year extension. Therefore, as a supplier to ESPO, Marlborough is now better positioned to support local authorities by offering integrated, streamlined, and high-quality infrastructure services.

Matthew Revell, Managing Director, Marlborough Highways, said, “Being awarded a place on the ESPO Highway Electrical Connections Framework is an exciting development for Marlborough and our clients. It reflects our commitment to expanding our capabilities and delivering seamless, high-quality electrical services. With over 30 years of experience across London, this accomplishment strengthens our position as a preferred partner, ensuring we can continue to provide value through innovation and efficiency.”

“One of the things I value most is their very collaborative and transparent team culture. It makes a big difference to have a contractor that wants to work closely with us and is supportive and responsive. With Marlborough, I get a team who are attentive, work collaboratively and honestly with me and don’t lose focus on delivering first class communications and compliance.”
Carly Norris, Project Manager Operations, Hackney Council
“From the design stage, Marlborough has been fundamental in delivering the Broad Lane Square improvements scheme. During the works, not only did the team manage to keep to the programme, but they went the extra mile to ensure attention to detail and came up with innovative solutions to address issues encountered on site. My thanks on behalf of Haringey goes out to Marlborough for their dedication to deliver.”
Dana Rasheed, Project Manager, Haringey Council
“Working alongside our Term Service Contractor Marlborough Highways, we successfully completed renovations to the Crowstone Footbridge. The designs were provided by Marlborough, and the work was unique. The scheme was completed to budget and ahead of its programme duration.”
Neil Handley, Senior Engineer, Southend-on-Sea City Council
“I would like to thank you and your team for your efforts, the Marlborough crews were professional, courteous, and hard working all day and ensured the event went without a hitch. You and the team were a credit to the company, demonstrating commitment and support to the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.”
Nick Davies, Specialist Services Manager, Barking and Dagenham Council
“I just wanted to say what a pleasure it has been to work with Marlborough Highways over the last six months. The quality of work is superb, and there has been some excellent collaboration between Milestone and Marlborough to complete, what at times, has been quite a challenging scheme. I hope to work with Marlborough on another project in the near future.”
Colin Hill, Schemes Manager, Milestone Infrastructure
“Marlborough worked with us in constructing a 1.3km cycle track. There were a number of technical difficulties to overcome, and their gifted foreman worked to propose some innovative solutions to the challenges we faced. The result is a facility that the locals are proud of, providing walkers and cyclists with alternative access to the hospital and nearby school. The scheme was a lot of hard work, but well worth it.”
Rob Venables, NEC Project Manager, Essex County Council
“Marlborough attracts people who take care and have pride in their work. Several gangs of Operatives worked tirelessly for six months to reconstruct drainage networks, lay more than 3km of high quality bespoke granite kerbs and granite channels blocks to ensure positive drainage. The technical compliance, attention to detail and level of quality finish along the entire carriageway was exceptional”.
Mark Chiverrell, Technical Director, Project Centre
“We saw huge benefits in appointing Marlborough as our full service contractor and we’re impressed – they’ve delivered consistent high quality service and superior quality control across every project. Marlborough, provide us with a ‘one-stop’ shop solution – we get the same quality of service and better control across all aspects of the project.”
Darren Bryant, Principal Engineer, Enfield Council

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