A new contract worth £328 million has been awarded to engineering group Colas to maintain roads across the West Midlands region.
The eight-year tender, which starts in July, will see the French civil engineering firm carry out routine maintenance, repairing defects, responding to emergency incidents and providing severe weather services on some of the region's busiest routes, including the M6, M42 and M54.
The tender will cover around 2,300 miles of motorway and trunk roads across the West Midlands county, Shropshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire and parts of North Gloucestershire.
Colas chief executive Carl Fergusson said: "Everyone at Colas is delighted that we are continuing to build on our successful relationship with National Highways with this new, significant, contract award.
"We are looking forward to establishing a highly effective collaborative working relationship with National Highways and our supply chain partners as part of the contract and in working towards the common goal of reducing carbon emissions to achieve net zero."
Andrew Jinks, National Highways' Midlands operations director, added: "Our roads are among the safest in the world and partnerships like this help to maintain the high standards that we set ourselves and our partners.
"By working more closely with our supply chain partners on routine maintenance, repairs and incident response, we're able to work more effectively, identifying innovative ways of working and providing the best possible quality of service to road users.
"We're delighted that Colas has been awarded this contract and look forward to working with them, driving improvement and strengthening our regional expertise."
