Agenda item

Award of Street Cleansing Contract to Volker Highways

Decision:

That:

 

1)        a growth item of £111k per annum be approved from 2020/21, as detailed in Part 2 of the report in order to provide a new Street Cleansing Contract; and

 

2)        the Street Cleansing Contract be included as part of the Highways Maintenance Contract with Volker Highways.  This would be for a period of six years from April 2020 with an option to extend for a further three years.

Minutes:

The Executive considered a report setting out a proposal to include the street cleansing contract as part of the Highways Maintenance Contract with Volker Highways which would offer an opportunity for continued service development.

 

The Executive Member for Environment and Leisure went through the proposal and advised that the current street cleansing contract, which had already had two extensions, would end on 31 March 2020.  As the contract did not now satisfy the Council’s requirements in terms of quality it was proposed to include it as part of the Highways Maintenance Contract which should improve the service.  The growth item of £111k per annum was highlighted.

 

Councillor Margetts welcomed the proposal as there had been incidents in his Ward which demonstrated that the current contract had not been performing to the required standard.  He noted the proposed performance standards, including that justified complaints would be monitored and should remain below 100 per annum and the one related to scheduled sweeping routes, and asked the Executive Member for Environment and Leisure to commit to providing a brief annual report on how well the contractor was meeting these performance standards, which he agreed to.

 

RESOLVED that:

 

1)        a growth item of £111k per annum be approved from 2020/21, as detailed in Part 2 of the report, in order to provide a new Street Cleansing Contract; and

 

2)        the Street Cleansing Contract be included as part of the Highways Maintenance Contract with Volker Highways.  This would be for a period of six years from April 2020 with an option to extend for a further three years.

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