Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Highway Management

Forward Plan Ref: 2022/249

Contact: Phil Whitfield, Principal Officer - Service Improvement, phil.whitfield@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Corporate Director Environment & Place (CA16).

Approval to procure the preferred highways maintenance delivery model for the 2025 highways maintenance contract.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to

a)                      Approve the preferred model (single provider with greater level of in-house responsibilities and use of frameworks for some activities) for the future highway maintenance contract for Oxfordshire.

b)                      Support progression to the next stage of developing and drafting the specification, contract, and other tender documents required for procurement.

Recommendations approved.

Cabinet considered the outcome of work by highway maintenance contract specialists, DMSqd, to determine the most appropriate procurement model for Oxfordshire.

Councillor Andrew Gant, Cabinet Member for Highway Management, introduced the report.  He thanked the Audit & Governance Committee for their work on the governance arrangements.  The models considered were listed in paragraph 9 of the report.  The recommended model was described in recommendation a) and there was a helpful visual representation on page 280.

Councillor Gant moved the recommendations.  They were seconded by Councillor Enright and agreed.

RESOLVED to:

a)              Approve the preferred model (single provider with greater level of in-house responsibilities and use of frameworks for some activities) for the future highway maintenance contract for Oxfordshire.

b)              Support progression to the next stage of developing and drafting the specification, contract, and other tender documents required for procurement.