Cabinet Member: Highways Delivery & Operations

Forward Plan Ref: 2021/024

Contact: Roland Gilbert, Contracts Manager – Interim Tel: 07783 879015

Report by Corporate Director for Environment and Place and Corporate Director Commercial Development Assets and Investments (CA8).

The County Council needs to make a decision on whether to grant a two-year extension to its highways contract. This report sets out the options that are available to the Council and recommends an extension is granted, subject to both parties committing to a programme of service improvement, cost reduction and social value enhancement.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to

(a)  Support an extension to the highway maintenance contract by two years to the end of March 2025.

(b)  Delegate authority for the completion of the extension and associated Framework Alliance Contract (FAC) to the Corporate Director for Environment & Place in consultation with the Corporate Director of Commercial Development, Assets and Investment, and the s151 Officer. 

Recommendations agreed.

The County Council needed to decide on whether to grant a two-year extension to its highways contract. The report set out the options that were available to the Council and recommended an extension be granted, subject to both parties committing to a programme of service improvement, cost reduction and social value enhancement.

Councillor Damian Haywood, Shadow Cabinet Member for Highways Delivery and Operations spoke in support of the recommendations

RESOLVED:           to

(a)  support an extension to the highway maintenance contract by two years to the end of March 2025.

(b)  delegate authority for the completion of the extension and associated Framework Alliance Contract (FAC) to the Corporate Director for Environment & Place in consultation with the Corporate Director of Commercial Development, Assets and Investment, and the s151 Officer.