£1bn boost for London’s network

13 December 2006
 
Contacts worth more than £1bn have been awarded for maintenance and improvement works on London’s road network.
Believed to be some of the biggest in Europe, the deals cover the north, south and central regions of London, and will last for a decade, replacing the current system of five area agreements. The contracts are being awarded for six-year terms, with yearly increases taking it up to the 10-year mark.
The new contracts have been changed to allow Transport for London to deal directly with the contractors as a network operator, rather than the current arrangements which involve a consultant organisation acting as steward for each area.
The contracts have been awarded to Amey for the north, Accord MP for the south, and Ringway Jacobs for the central region.
The contracts, to be confirmed on 22 December, cover routine highway maintenance, reactive operations and additional maintenance and improvement capital works, as instructed by TfL.
The approximate value of the contracts will be £125M for all three areas combined each year, depending on the number of schemes TfL wishes to implement.
Chris Connor, Transport for London’s director of road network management, said: ‘The contractors selected put forward the best and most economically-advantageous tenders, based on the quality of service provision, risk mitigation and price. A key part of these contracts is a requirement, assessed as part of the tender process, for contractors to deliver action plans aimed at improving equality and diversity in the workforce and throughout the supply chain.’
TfL also hopes the new deals will lead to ‘even safer footways and carriageways’ as well as ‘better planning of works’, while also cutting disruption’.

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