Gloucestershire - Highways Term Maintenance Contract

Gloucestershire County Council is tendering for a supplier(s) to deliver the following scope of the Services for its Highways Term Maintenance Contract. The scope of the service includes the management and delivery of: • Emergency response (24hrs 7 days a week) • Winter maintenance activities including gritting and replenishment of grit bins • Environmental maintenance including grass cutting, tree maintenance, weed treatment and other verge maintenance. • Cyclical maintenance activities including gulley cleansing, grip cutting, replenishment of road marking and other routine maintenance to prevent deterioration of highway assets. • Routine carriageway and footway maintenance works including repair of potholes and minor patching • Highway safety inspections and management of third party claims • Routine drainage maintenance works including minor works repairs, CCTV surveys, jetting and root cutting. • Routine bridge maintenance including vegetation clearance, painting and masonry works. • Delivery of carriageway and footway minor works • Design and delivery of carriageway pre-patching and surface treatment works • Safety and infrastructure improvement works including traffic calming, road alignment, signs, road markings The Council's vision for the successful delivery of the service are to deliver on the following three core values of the Client as set out in the Council's corporate Vision and Values: • Living within our means; • Doing the right things; • Helping communities to help themselves The Council will expect the successful to supplier to support the Council in delivering this vision through the delivery of the contract. We are looking for a good basic Highways Term Maintenance service with a focus on self-delivery (or subcontract arrangements which provide similar benefits to the client). A Partnering arrangement with staff co-located and co-mingled and joint ownership of day to day operations at management and team leader level. IT systems and on-site serviced office accommodation at Shire Hall and regional Depots will be provided by the client. Further details are provided in the procurement documents. We are following a 2 stage process using the Competitive Procedure with Negotiation. Contract form will be the NEC4 Term Service Contract as amended in accordance with the procurement documents.

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