Better information for your journey
The National Traffic Control Centre collects real-time information on road conditions.
The Project Control Framework
On 1st April 2008 we launched the Project Control Framework. The Framework sets out how we, together with the Department for Transport, manage and deliver major improvement projects.
Free Traffic Information Seminars
Helping your business get its customers, drivers and goods where they should be, on time and stress-free.
Capability Assessment Toolkit 3
Introducing new and challenging indicators in the area of corporate social responsibility.
Efficiency Gains from Collaborative Roads Procurement
Delivering efficiency and best value is central
Foreword - Steve Rowsell, HA Procurement Director
In 2001 the Highways Agency committed itself to continuous improvement in its procurement. The Agency's Procurement Strategy Delivering Best Value Solutions and Services set out 10 principles for delivering better value. Those principles, restated within this review, have been applied across the full range of highways-related purchasing.
These principles have enabled innovative developments such as our new best value supplier selection process utilising our Capability Assessment Toolkit. We have also made significant progress in creating integrated delivery teams through new forms of contract such as the Managing Agent Contractor contract for maintenance and Early Contractor Involvement contract for major projects. We have developed strategic, non-adversarial partnerships and established supplier communities to share best practice and drive improvement in service delivery.
The first part of this review of the Procurement Strategy recognises the success of our supply chain together with the Agency's teams who have been instrumental in achieving our 2001 vision "to be recognised as being a client at the forefront of best procurement practice by working in partnership with a sustainable supply chain to deliver best value solutions and services." I congratulate all those involved. There is, however, more to be done.
The second part of this document sets out a new challenge of putting Customers First. Procurement plays a fundamental role in delivering high quality services to customers. We will be setting increasingly high standards for levels of performance and demanding high quality services from our suppliers.
Alongside this challenge we will be working with suppliers and local authorities to improve highways procurement across England's roads to meet the Government's efficiency targets.
In order to deliver best value we need to learn more about the extended supply chain and ensure integration into the planning and design process. The industry has shown great commitment to achieving the cultural change needed to deliver the recent initiatives. I look forward to continuing to work with the whole supply chain to provide continual improvement in the services delivered to our customers.
HA Procurement Director
