{"id":8516,"date":"2026-01-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/salt-blog\/uk-2-5-price-uplift-for-2026-27-highway-salt-contracts\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:20:36","slug":"uk-2-5-price-uplift-for-2026-27-highway-salt-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/es\/salt-blog\/uk-2-5-price-uplift-for-2026-27-highway-salt-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: 2.5% Price Uplift for 2026\u201327 Highway Salt Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Westmorland &#038; Furness Council procurement document notes a roughly 2.5% price increase for rock salt in the 2026\u201327 season compared to the previous year. This reference point is crucial for winter service teams setting budgets and framework call-offs.<\/p>\n<p>The document outlines procurement via the YPO framework and frames the uplift within the current inflation context. These contract markers directly influence stock strategies and contingency planning for municipalities ahead of the next gritting season.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Westmorland &#038; Furness Council procurement document notes a roughly 2.5% price increase for rock salt in the 2026\u201327 season compared to the previous year. This reference point is crucial for winter service teams setting budgets and framework call-offs. The document outlines procurement via the YPO framework and frames the uplift within the current inflation [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8629,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions\/8629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}