Atkins beats contractors to win ￡200m Somerset job

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Atkins has made it a hat-trick of road maintenance wins in Somerset after beating five more traditional roads outfits to be confirmed as preferred bidder for a ￡200 million-plus road maintenance deal for the county council. The consultant has retained its position as the council's highways partner during the last two re-bids and again going solo beat Balfour Beatty, Carillion, Enterprise, May Gurney and Ringway to the new deal, which is expected to generate savings of ￡5 million a year. Council cabinet member for Environment, Anthony Trollope-Bellew said: "This is one of the biggest contracts the council has entered into in recent years and we wanted to make sure we obtained the best value for the council tax payers of Somerset The savings are very important to this council at an extremely tough time financially.