Transport appraisal contracts
UK public sector · 123 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026
Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count
- Contracts awarded
- 123
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £89k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £18.8m
- 111 of 119 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 63
- Suppliers
- 41
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See which ones
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What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most transport appraisal contracts took 42% of them (51 of 123).
- Contracts awarded per quarter held steady across the period.
- The median contract, £89k, is close to the median across consulting & accountancy contracts (£80k).
Who buys transport appraisal
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1West Midlands Combined Authority12 contracts£1.2m
- 2Highways England9 contracts£1.4m
- 3Oxfordshire County Council7 contracts£527k
- 4Wolverhampton City Council7 contracts£432k
- 5Southend-on-Sea City Council5 contracts£603k
- 6Department for Transport4 contracts£686k
- 7Hampshire County Council4 contracts£520k
- 8Liverpool City Region Combined Authority3 contracts£1.2m
- 9West Yorkshire Combined Authority3 contracts£1.0m
- 10Tees Valley Combined Authority3 contracts£966k
Top transport appraisal contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Jacobs12 contracts£3.8m
- 2WSP11 contracts£2.6m
- 3Systra10 contracts£1.2m
- 4AECOM10 contracts£589k
- 5Arup9 contracts£2.3m
- 6Amey8 contracts£1.2m
- 7Mott MacDonald6 contracts£1.9m
- 8AtkinsRéalis5 contracts£581k
- 9Pell Frischmann5 contracts£453k
- 10Stantec5 contracts£341k
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
West Midlands Combined Authority to Jacobs · Awarded 30 September 2026
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to WSP · Awarded 30 September 2026
Office of Rail and Road to Systra · Awarded 30 September 2026
West Midlands Combined Authority to Mott MacDonald · Awarded 28 September 2026
Portsmouth City Council to Stantec · Awarded 23 September 2026
Oxfordshire County Council to Jacobs · Awarded 21 September 2026
Department for Transport to Systra · Awarded 15 September 2026
THRE0086 - Active travel values of travel time methodology (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£80k
Department for Transport to Systra · Awarded 14 September 2026
Northumberland County Council to AECOM · Awarded 11 September 2026
Newport City Council to Transport for Wales · Awarded 10 September 2026
Largest
BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL to Jacobs · Awarded 19 December 2025
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to Mott MacDonald · Awarded 19 November 2025
Leeds City Council - PACS to Arup · Awarded 4 November 2025
Tees Valley Combined Authority to Network Rail Infrastructure Limited · Awarded 28 February 2026
Highways England to WSP · Awarded 25 February 2026
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 115 · Scotland 5 · Wales 3
What is included
Building, maintaining and running traffic and transport models, and appraising transport schemes and options to transport analysis guidance, including options assessment reports, feasibility and transport business cases.
- Strategic and microsimulation traffic models
- Model maintenance and review
- Options assessment reports and case for change
- Transport scheme feasibility using models
- Transport and active travel business cases
- Transport appraisal for development plans
- Rail and road scheme option studies
What is not included
- Transport strategies and travel plans (csl.plan.transport-planning-and-travel-planning)
- Traffic data collection (csl.plan.traffic-and-transport-surveys)
- Model software and mobility analytics products (another industry: it-software)
- Non-transport Green Book business cases (csl.econ.business-case-development)