ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the world’s leading natural and built asset design & consultancy firm, November 25, 2014 announced that its subsidiary Hyder Consulting has secured a place as a key supplier on the Highways Agency’s Collaborative Delivery Framework (CDF) in the United Kingdom. The framework will be used to deliver up to £5billion of investment which will be focused on delivering strategic infrastructure projects under the Agency’s new transformation as a government-owned company. It provides supply chain confidence in its spending profile and priorities over the next five years.

For Hyder, the contract has the potential value of up to £12million per year for the duration of the framework. The aim of the framework is to bring the Agency, designers and contractors together as one collaborative team more closely and effectively than ever before, to maximize the Government’s investment and keep disruption to road users to a minimum.

Fraser Davidson, Managing Director for Hyder’s Highways and Transportation Sector, said: “Winning a place on the CDF is a significant and outstanding result for our business. It guarantees a continued and enhanced workload platform for our staff until 2021. It will allow the continued and structured growth of our Sector in the UK, and now also for our colleagues globally within ARCADIS. As one of the first consultancies to become BS11000 certified, working collaboratively with our partners is second nature. Our past performance in working with our clients and delivery partners to provide the best solutions speaks for itself. We look forward to working with the other suppliers and the Agency on this framework to enhance England’s infrastructure and contribute to the economic growth across the country.”

Hyder is a long-standing partner of the Highways Agency. Strategic projects with which it is currently involved include: