Shropshire Council and Multevo win second national highways award in a week

Shropshire Council and its highways contractor Multevo have won a second national highways award in a week, after scooping the prestigious Collaborative Partnership Award at the Department for Transport (DfT) Special Recognition Awards 2024.

The Collaborative Partnership Award recognises the different ways that public and private sector are working together to improve the highways and transportation sector.

Shropshire Council and Mutevo beat 22 other entries involving 123 organisations.

Last week the two organisations won the Highways Award for Team of the Year 2024,

The Collaborative Partnership award nomination said:

The collaborative partnership has revolutionised road maintenance in Shropshire, demonstrating exceptional innovation and collaboration.

By introducing hybrid work methodologies and assuming comprehensive responsibilities, the partnership has significantly reduced costs, improved public satisfaction, and set new industry standards.

The success of the partnership exemplifies the potential of SME contractors to deliver tier 1 services, fostering local economic growth and improving infrastructure.

This award recognises the remarkable achievements of a partnership that has truly transformed highway maintenance in Shropshire and beyond.

The judges said:

‘We were really impressed with the winner who provided very detailed insights into their partnership impact… by providing evidence of collaborative decision-making, impressive analysis of the collaborative relationship and what it is achieving to ensure impact is achieved across a range of areas including, safety, efficiency, productivity, whilst also scaling their work to impressive levels that might be expected from much larger organisations and partnerships.’

Dan Morris, Shropshire Council’s Cabinet member for highways, said:

“Following hot on the heels of our Highways Award for team of the year this is further much-deserved recognition of the work that the council and our partners carry out to maintain the county’s roads in the most effective, efficient and innovative way. I want to congratulate all the Shropshire Council and Multevo staff involved for this much-deserved award and for their ongoing efforts to improve the county’s roads.”

Josh Sweeney, director of marketing and growth with Multevo, said:

“There is no higher accolade than the DfT Special Recognition Awards for us and so winning the highly contented Collaborative Partnership Award is a very proud moment for everyone at Multevo and Shropshire Council. The entire Shropshire team have now been rightly recognised for all of their hard work, in a short space of time, in two separate national sector awards so credit where it is due, the industry is taking notice. Well done team Shropshire!”

More information about the awards can be found here.