Northamptonshire County Council - Highway Services (on behalf of West Northamptonshire and North Northamptonshire Councils)

Descriptions

Lot 1 covers the area of West Northamptonshire comprising the current districts and boroughs of Daventry, Northampton and South Northamptonshire. Further detail on the area can be found in the Descriptive Document. Northamptonshire County Council (NCC) is currently the highway authority for West Northamptonshire with services covered by this procurement undertaken by or on behalf of NCC and the district/borough councils of the administrative areas referred to above. On 1 April 2021, West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) will take over responsibility for these services. NCC is commencing this procurement on behalf of the future WNC for the delivery of highway services in West Northamptonshire., The objective of the procurement is to appoint a qualified competent service provider to deliver high quality value for money highways maintenance and other related services, including potential for design on behalf of WNC., This procurement covers the provision of:, • highways asset management;, • highway reactive maintenance and emergency service;, • highway routine maintenance (both revenue and capital);, • traffic signal maintenance;, • severe weather service (including winter service);, • third party liability claims (red & green);, • urban traffic management control;, • highways capital projects design and implementation (minor improvement schemes); and, • highways bridges and structures design and works., WNC will also have the option to expand the delivery by the service provider at any time during the contract term to cover the following possible highways and related services:, • major highways capital projects;, • maintenance of non-highway and highway assets, including: roads and footways; bridges and structures, drainage systems, balancing ponds, bus parking areas, cycleways, footpaths/ public rights of ways, surface and multi-storey car parks;, • street cleansing;, • arboricultural works;, • verge maintenance and, • grounds maintenance., This procurement does not cover WNC's functions relating to street lighting which are delivered through a separate PFI arrangement. There are several service areas that are currently planned to be delivered direct by WNC and it is not anticipated that they will be delivered through this procurement but WNC has the option to expand the scope of delivery during this procurement or at any point during the contract term to include any or all of these services (and further detail on the circumstances where this may occur is contained within the Descriptive Document):, • client transport planning and provision;, • transport policy and strategy;, • highways development management;, • capital project delivery co-ordination;, • New Roads and Street Works Act 1991;, • regulation & enforcement;, • investigations, searches and definitive maps;, • travel choices;, • parking enforcement;, • community liaison, The scope of the service from commencement is anticipated to be an area of dialogue during the process and further details on this are contained within the Descriptive Document., The procurement will allow for the submission of variant bids as further detailed in the procurement documents., A single contract will be entered into in respect of Lot 1 with one provider. Further detail on the current proposals for the contractual structure can be found in the Descriptive Document. The contract will operate for a minimum term of seven years with possible scope for extensions up to a maximum of fourteen years from commencement. The valuation of this Lot 1 includes the use of all extension capacity and the possible options to expand the service delivery during the contract term. A breakdown of the Lot value can be found in the Descriptive Document.