Manchester City Council is looking for contractors for a £200 million civil engineering framework that will be used across all the boroughs of Greater Manchester.

The framework is due to run for two years with the option of a further two, and will be for schemes across the 10 boroughs and will mainly involve highways works.

Turner & Townsend, Manchester City Council and Transport for Greater Manchester will lead the procurement process for the framework, which is the first of its kind – the council has not previously had a framework in place to procure infrastructure works.

Among the packages and projects across the framework will be earthworks, highways, street lighting, bridge construction and site clearance. There will be six lots in total.

TfGM and the council have outlined a series of schemes that will come under the framework, with more than £60 million in works due to be procured during the financial year for 2016/17.

Greater Manchester’s civil engineering framework in full:

Lot 1: Construction only: Works up to £500,000

Lot 2: Construction only: Works between £500,001 and £5 million

Lot 3: Construction only: Works over £5 million

Lot 4: Design and construction: Works up to £500,000

Lot 5: Design and construction: Works between £500,001 and £5 million

Lot 6: Design and construction: Works over £5 million

One if the projects earmarked for the framework is an £8.8 million project to overhaul Great Ancoats Street on the edge of the city centre.

A package of bridge maintenance work will also be procured, with over 300 bridges across Greater Manchester in need of repairs and repointing.

Smaller projects in the framework include £3 million worth of road upgrades in Collyhurst and a £3.9 million scheme to build a 5 km segregated cycle route along Upper Chorlton Road.

Last week, Transport for Greater Manchester named 39 companies on its professional services framework, worth £60 million over four years.